Name Johan Theorin Role Journalist | Movies Echoes from the Dead | |
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Awards CWA International Dagger, CWA New Blood Dagger Nominations Barry Award for Best Paperback Original People also search for Marlaine Delargy, Daniel Alfredson, Birgitta Bongenhielm Books Echoes from the Dead, The Darkest Room, The Voices Beyond: (Oland Q, The Quarry, The Asylum | ||
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Johan Theorin is a journalist and author, born in 1963 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the island of Öland in the Baltic sea. His mother’s family–sailors, fishermen and stone cutters–have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island’s legacy of supernatural tales and folklore.
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Echoes from the Dead (originally published in Sweden as Skumtimmen by Wahlström & Widstrand) is Theorin’s first novel. In 2007 it was voted Best First Mystery Novel by the authors and critics of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy, it has been translated into twenty five languages and was made into a Swedish feature film in 2013. His second novel, The Darkest Room, (in Swedish Nattfåk) was voted the Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2008, won the Glass Key award in 2009 and was also awarded the 2010 CWA International Dagger. The Quarry, was published by Transworld Publishers in 2011. Concluding with The Voices Beyond in 2015, the books form a loose quartet of novels set on the island of Öland. A stand alone suspense novel, The Asylum, was published in 2013.
He now resides on Öland and in Stockholm.