Swedish writer Maj Sjöwall, considered one of the pioneers of Nordic black literature, has died at the age of 84 after a long illness, her editor reported to the Swedish agency TT on Wednesday.
Sjöwall and her husband, the late Per Wahlöö, wrote a series of ten crime novel books starring Detective Martin Beck in the 1960s and 1970s .
The internationally successful series has been translated into 40 languages, including Spanish, and has sold some ten million copies worldwide, in addition to the fact that several of the books have been released in theaters.
Sjöwall and Wahlöö are recognized as precursors to a genre exploited years later by authors such as Henning Mankell or, more recently, Stig Larsson or Camilla Läckberg.
Maj Sjöwall received several international awards in recognition of his literary work, among them, the VIII Pepe Carvalho Award at the Barcelona Black Novel Week, BCNegra.
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