Annika Bryn
Encyclopedia
Annika Bryn is a Swedish
author
and freelance journalist
. Bryn has written several short stories
in magazine
s and freelance articles in newspaper
s, as well as two crime fiction
novel
s.
Bryn was born to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian
father, active in the resistance against the German occupation of Norway in World War II. After divorce, the father moved to the United States
and became a U.S. citizen.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and freelance journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. Bryn has written several short stories
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
in magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
s and freelance articles in newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s, as well as two crime fiction
Crime fiction
Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
s.
Bryn was born to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
father, active in the resistance against the German occupation of Norway in World War II. After divorce, the father moved to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and became a U.S. citizen.
Books
- Den sjätte natten (The Sixth Night) 2003; thriller. Translated into Norwegian 2004 and German (Die sechste Nacht) 2005. First book in the series of leading protagonist Margareta Davidsson.
- Brottsplats Rosenbad (Crime Scene Rosenbad) Swedish, 2005. RosenbadRosenbadRosenbad is a building in central Stockholm, precinct of Norrmalm, designed by Art Nouveau architect Ferdinand Boberg and completed in 1902. It is located on Strömgatan on the North side of the river Norrström...
is the government building in StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden. Second book in the series of Margareta Davidsson. - Morden i Buttle (The Murders in Buttle) , Swedish, 2006. Buttle is a small village on the island Gotland. Third book in the series of Margareta Davidsson.