Blackwater

Kerstin Ekman was born in 1933 and is one of Sweden's most prominent novelists. The author of the international bestseller Blackwater, which has been sold in 23 countries, she is renowned both for her detective novels and her more literary works. She has written seventeen novels which have been translated into many languages and won numerous prizes and awards. She used to be one of the eighteen members of the Swedish Academy of Arts and Letters, but resigned when the Academy failed to make an official statement of support for Salman Rushdie. Kerstin Ekman lives in Vjalsjöbyn, a small village in the north of Sweden.