Nordic Noir: An Interview with Thomas Enger
7:00-8:30 pm PT
Telegraph Hill Books | 1501 Grant Ave | San Francisco, CA
Event admission is free. A $10–15 donation is suggested.
Internationally bestselling crime-writing duo Thomas Enger and Jørn Lier Horst have been called “two of the most distinguished writers of Nordic Noir” (Financial Times). Stigma, their fourth collaboration, finds deeply scarred homicide detective Alexander Blix and his collaborator, journalist Emma Ramm, trying to catch an escaped German prisoner—while Blix himself is behind bars. Whether you’re new to Enger’s work or you’re already a fan of the series critics have called “an international sensation” (Vogue), you’ll want to catch this thrilling conversation with Enger and Randal Brandt, curator of the California Detective Fiction Collection at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library.
Part of Litquake’s Words Around the World
Sponsored by NORLA, Norway House, and Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press
Born in 1973, Thomas Enger lives in Oslo. He has two kids (ages 18 and 23). He has degrees in sports, history, and journalism. He worked as a journalist for about 10 years before making his debut as an author in 2010. Since then he’s written 16 novels, published in well over 30 countries. He’s a composer as well.
Randal S. Brandt is a librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, where he catalogs rare books and is the curator of the Bancroft Library’s California Detective Fiction Collection. His book, The Tule Marsh Murder, will be released this coming September.