Jan Arnald is a Swedishnovelist and literary critic, who uses the pen nameArne Dahl when writing crime fiction. He is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaperDagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer and Maria och Artur under his own name, but under his pen name he has written a series of crime novels about a fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation. The books are translated into several languages. The first five books were made into 180-minute films, screened as two 90-minute episodes per story. The first, Misterioso, was screened on SVT1 in Sweden on 27 and 28 December 2011, with the following four stories shown in eight weekly instalments between October and December 2012. The series was picked up by BBC Four and screened on British television on Saturday nights as part of BBC Four's foreign crime series season starting in April 2013.
Works written
As Jan Arnald
Chiosmassakern
Nalkanden
Genrernas tyranni
3 variationer
Klä i ord
Barbarer
Maria och Artur
Intimus
As Arne Dahl
''Intercrime'' series
Misterioso ; English translation by Tiina Nunnally: Misterioso, /The Blinded Man
The fourth installment of the series came out in spring 2014.
Other books
Elva ; Eleven
''Arne Dahl'' TV adaptations
The ten Intercrime novels have all been dramatised by Swedish production company Filmlance, the first five in 2011 and the rest in 2015. Filmlance is also responsible for the series Bron and for the later Martin Beck detective programmes. Each story has been dramatised in the form of a two-part miniseries, each with two ninety minute episodes or two one hour episodes.
A 2011 TV adaptation of five of the Arne Dahl stories was produced by Filmlance International (in co-production with several other European companies. Outside Sweden, the series was broadcast in the UK on BBC Four between April–June 2013, along with numerous other countries. The series is currently being broadcast in the United States through MHz Networks, most recently from November 2013 to January 2014.
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Series 2 (2015)
The last five novels in the Intercrime series were adapted for Series 2 of the popular Arne Dahl TV series, produced by Filmlance. They premiered in February 2015 in Sweden. The BBC began airing the second season on BBC Four in October 2015.
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Prizes and awards
2003 The Palle Rosenkrantz prize, for Europa Blues
