A selection of random links, well, almost random. Almost randomly taking
you to websites in Swedish and English, compiled from here and there.
To help you find the right things. When you need them.
To take you to many surprising and wonderful places. Carry on.
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Writings on crime fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 20, 2013: The Mysteriously Enticing World of Biblio-Mysteries
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 29, 2013: The Amazing Rediscovery of a Long-Forgotten Parsi Fictional Hero
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 20, 2013: When HRF Keating came to Bombay
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 16, 2013: So you want to write a James Bond novel, it's easy
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 23, 2013: Biographer of the Criminal Minds
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, October 27, 2012: The Crime fictions of China
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 22, 2012: Hans Koppel, the New Face of Swedish Crime Fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 8, 2012: The Indian Crime Novel
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 26, 2012: The Curse of the East
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 10, 2012: How much violence is too much?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 4, 2012: A tour plan for the morbid tourist
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 17, 2011: On plagiarism and piracy
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, November 12, 2011: The past and future of crime fiction
- The Caravan, October 2011: How Agatha Christie became Agatha Christie
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 2, 2011: Shopping for Detective Novels in South India
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 20, 2011: The generation gap in Crime Fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 24, 2011: The best crooks in the world of fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 30, 2011: The facts about facts in crime fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 2, 2011: The therapeutical uses of crime fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 19, 2011: A walk-in encyclopedia of real-life crime-fighting
- Deccan Herald Sunday Review: The horrors of terror
- The must read crime novel list
- Feature story for Open Magazine, January 17, 2011: A guide to crime fiction for dummies
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 28, 2010: Supernatural detection, does it really work?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 31, 2010: How to write a masterpiece of crime fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 3, 2010: When reality and fiction merges - how close is too close?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 26, 2010: Walking in a hero's footsteps - guided detective tours
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 22, 2010: RE-birth of a genre - springtime for Indian crime & detective fiction?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 1, 2010: A school for crime writers?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 27, 2010: The three best detective stories
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 6, 2010: The mystery of mysteries
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 6, 2010: How to be a poetic detective
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, January 9, 2010: Scandinavian detectives plotting in India
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 26, 2009: The day I saw the future of Detective Fiction, Page 2, Page 3
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 12, 2009: Mystery Cities of India
- The ABC of Bad Crime Novelists printed in Deccan Herald's Sunday review section (December 6, 2009) and on Sunday, March 28, 2010: Rediscoveries in the world of Indian pulp crime fiction
- Lounge on Saturday, October 24, 2009: FEATURE "Land of the Melancholic Cops", on Swedish crime fiction & interview with the best-selling Henning Mankell. As the printed version of the feature is abridged, you will find the original version here including some blurry snaps: Land of the Melancholic Cops and Interview with Henning Mankell, "Crime fiction is the mirror" and here's the somewhat shorter published story: Start page and it continues here page two and here page three and ends with the abridged Mankell interview
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 26, 2009: "Sherlock Holmes never came to India - or did he?"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 29, 2009: "An insider-view of the Locked Room Mystery genre"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 25, 2009: "By now, if you've read all of the below, you might wonder How To Write A Crime Novel"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 27, 2009: "How to play around with history successfully in a crime novel"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 30, 2009: "Truman Capote meets Bollywood in true crime magazine Crime & Detective" (and some blog responses to this particular column here: http://engageentertainenlighten.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-youre-thinking-of-writing-feature.html & http://immanuelscant.wordpress.com/)
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 2, 2009: "The perils of posthumous sequels"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 28, 2009: "Martin Cruz Smith and the Use of Location"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 28, 2009: "James Ellroy and his Demons"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, January 17, 2009: "Cornell Woolrich, father of noir"
- Old story, printed in The Hindu Literary Review, Sunday, February 4, 2007: "On the Paradoxes of Imagination"
- Finally a story printed in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter: "On scouting for settings for Detective Novels in India"
Two Swedish crime writers looking for settings to their respective crime novels in Chicken Gali in Bengaluru.
Photo by Raghav Shreyas.
Writings on other writers
In Swedish:
RK Narayan in his study (left) & on his balcony (right) Photo: ZOY.
Writings on travel
In English:
In Swedish:
Things left behind in Jamshedpur.
Some other published things...
In Swedish
The mixed bag - or relevant stuff discovered while surfing the net
In English
In Swedish, some interviews and articles on important subjects (Lite länkar till folk som skrivit om mig)
Must reads
In English:
Not necessarily in English:
...more to come!
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