Английская Википедия:Alex Dahl
Шаблон:Short description Alexandria Bockfeldt Dahl (born 1982), known as Alex Dahl, is an American/Norwegian crime novelist who writes in the Nordic noir genre. Her works have been translated into twelve languages, and she was described by Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet in 2019 as a new star of Nordic noir literature.[1]
Background
She was born in Oslo to a Norwegian father and an American mother, and grew up in West End Oslo. She is a native speaker of both Norwegian and English. She studied Russian, German and international studies in Oslo and Moscow, before earning a creative writing degree from Bath Spa University and a management degree from the University of Bath. She lives in London.[1]
Work
Her first novel, Før jeg forlater deg (Before I Leave You), was published in Norwegian under the name Alexandra Bockfeldt in 2013.[2]
In 2018 her first English-language novel, The Boy at the Door, was published by Penguin Random House. The book was one of the most widely sold e-books in England at the time and was described by The Times as one of "the best crime fiction" books published in 2018.[3] It has been translated into ten languages.[4][5][6]
In 2019 she published the novel The Heart Keeper.[1] In 2020, Dahl published Playdate.[7]
Adaptations
Her 2020 novel Playdate entered production for a Disney+ television series of the same name, starring Holiday Grainger.[8]
Bibliography
- 2013 – Før jeg forlater deg, Juritzen Forlag[1]
- 2018 – The Boy at the Door, Penguin Random House[1]
- 2019 – The Heart Keeper, Penguin Random House[1]
- 2020- 'Playdate'
References
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- Norwegian-language writers
- English-language writers
- Norwegian crime fiction writers
- 21st-century Norwegian novelists
- Living people
- Norwegian women novelists
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