Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish

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 novelist.

Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna and Dödsklockan) but later went on to psychological and social theme

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s. Among her later works is Mörker och blåbärsris (1972) (set in northern Sweden

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) and Händelser vid vatten

Blackwater (novel)

Blackwater is a 1993 novel by the Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman. It received the August Prize in 1993 and the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1994....

(1993), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.

Ekman was elected member of the Swedish Academy

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 in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten

Lars Gyllensten

Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten was a Swedish author and physician, and a member of the Swedish Academy, which has the aim of furthering the "purity, vigour and majesty" of the Swedish language and selects the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature each year.Gyllensten was born and grew up in a...

 and Werner Aspenström

Werner Aspenström

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, due to the debate following death threat

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s posed to Salman Rushdie. According to the rules of the Academy, however, she will remain a passive member for the entirety of her life.

Partial bibliography

See the article on Swedish Wikipedia for a complete bibliography.

• Blackwater
  Blackwater (novel)
  Blackwater is a 1993 novel by the Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman. It received the August Prize in 1993 and the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1994....
  
  (Händelser vid vatten, 1993), translated by Joan Tate
  Joan Tate
  Joan Tate was a prolific translator, translating works by many leading Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finnish writers into English....
  
  , 1996
• Under the Snow (De tre små mästarna, 1961), translated by Joan Tate
  Joan Tate
  Joan Tate was a prolific translator, translating works by many leading Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finnish writers into English....
  
  , 1997
• The Forest of Hours (Rövarna i Skuleskogen, 1988), translated 1998

The Women and the Town (Kvinnorna och staden) Tetralogy

• Witches' Rings (Häxringarna, 1974), translated by Linda Schenck, 1997
• The Spring (Springkällan, 1976), translated by Linda Schenck, 1999
• Angel House (Änglahuset, 1979), translated by Sarah G. Death, 2002
• A City of Light (En stad av ljus, 1983), translated by Linda Schenck, 2003

The Wolfskin (Vargskinnet) Trilogy

• God's Mercy (Guds Barmhärtighet, 1999)
• The Last String (Sista rompan, 2002)
• Lottery Scratchcards (Skraplotter, 2003)