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Thomas Engström (born 1975), is a Swedish novelist and journalist. His third novel, West of Liberty, was published in October 2013 by Albert Bonniers Förlag. The book is the first in a series of political thrillers featuring former Stasi agent and CIA freelancer Ludwig Licht. The series explores the harsh realities of today's international political landscape.
Contents
The Ludwig Licht series has been sold to a number of countries, including Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Russia, The Czech Republic and Greece.
West of Liberty earned Engström the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy's award for best crime writing debut of 2013.
South of Hell was published in August 2014. It takes place in rural Pennsylvania, as well as Washington, DC. It was nominated for the Best Swedish Suspense Novel of the Year Award.
The third installment, North of Paradise, was published in October 2015. The setting, this time, is southern Florida and Cuba. In 2016, the series will conclude with East of Armageddon, taking place in Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia.
Engström currently lives in Tblisi, Georgia, with his wife and fellow writer Margit Richert.
Journalism
An award-winning columnist, Thomas Engström writes about international politics and culture in the news daily Expressen, as well as the news weekly Fokus and the monthly magazine Axess (for some years, he also wrote for Svenska Dagbladet). He has a law degree from Lund University, including studies at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights.
Translations
Engström has translated some twenty titles from English, including the works of Barack Obama, Mark Bowden, Ian Kershaw, and Walter Isaacson.
Other
In the fall of 2009, Engström co-authored a pan-European Anthology on the state of European democracy, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall – an assignment commissioned by the Danish Foreign Office.