Mika Waltari

Spanish Crime Series : GP Policíaca

April 9, 2015Archive, Book covers, Publishers, Series, TranslationAmerican novel, Boileau-Narcejac, Mika Waltari, Peter Cheyney, Vérydjeannerod One comment

The popular “The Owl” Series (Colección El buho), by the Barcelona publisher Planeta, published household names of international Crime Fiction in Spain in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Such as, for example Dashiell Hammett’s Ciudad de pesadilla (translated by César de Montserrat) in 1958 or Erle Stanley Gardner’s El caso de la lata vacía, in 1953 and El caso de la lámpara humeante, in 1957. Another famous Series dedicated to Crime Fiction in Spain at the time of the fascist dictatorship, and one of the most popular was GP Policíaca . Published by editorial Plaza & Janés, in Barcelona, it comprised some 200 novels, from 1957 to 1966. Continue reading →

A comprehensive bibliography of Scandinavian Noir

December 27, 2014ResourcesArni THORARINSSON, Erik Yngve Högberg, Gertrud Stendal, Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, Karin Fossum, Kerstin Bergman, Maj Sjöwahl, Mauri Sariola, Mika Waltari, Ross Thomas, Sture SamuelsonInternational Crime Fiction Research GroupGallery Leave a comment

Excellently documented as always, Marginalia devotes this month a special issue to Scandinavian Noir. For all readers of Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum, Jo Nesbø or Arnaldur Indridason looking for more on the context of Nordic noir and eager to discover Scandinavian crime authors old and new, this is a must. Especially as it contains, too, a selected bibliography on works of criticism, such as the recently published book by our friend Kerstin Bergman, Swedish Crime Fiction: The Making of Nordic Noir (Mimesis International, 2014). Readers curious about Swedish Crime Fiction from the 1940’s, such as Sture, Erik Yngve Högberg, Gertrud Stendal, or Stieg Trenter, or about Finnish Authors Mika Waltari (1908-1979) and Mauri Sariola, or about the collaboration of Maj Sjöwahl with Ross Thomas will want to read more…