Ake Edwardson

Åke Edwardson
Gothenburg book fair 2008
Born	(1953-03-10) March 10, 1953 (age 63) Eksjö, Småland
Nationality	Swedish
Genre	Crime fiction, Children's books
Website
www.akeedwardson.se

Åke Edwardson (born March 10, 1953 in Eksjö, Småland) is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including as a journalist and press officer for the United Nations, and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006.

Several of the books have been adapted for television. Winter was played first by Johan Gry and later by Magnus Krepper.