Professor Theodor Kallifatides was born in Greece in 1938. In 1964 he emigrated to Sweden where, after several years spent as an unskilled worker, he eventually went on to study Philosophy at the University of Stockholm where he later became a teacher. In 1972 he was appointed editor in chief of Sweden's most prestigious literary review magazine. Having already written novels, poetry, drama and literary criticism he has now begun writing crime fiction.
