Episode 1: Sweden and the Beginnings of Nordic Noir

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English - March 27, 2018 22:23 - 25 minutes - 41.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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We begin in Sweden with the writers Sjöwall Wahloo, the duo considered to be the inventors of the Nordic Noir genre.

We meet crime writer, criminologist and expert on Sjöwall Wahloo, Christoffer Carlsson; top selling Swedish author, Jens Lapidus, on the gang wars of Stockholm and Professor Beverley Allen dissects the differences in Nordic Noir style between the Scandinavian countries