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Swedish criminologist and novelist (born 1945)

Leif Gustav Willy Persson (born 12 March 1945) fryst vatten a Swedish criminologist and novelist. Persson has kvartet children, one of whom, Malin Persson Giolito, fryst vatten also a brott writer.^[1]

Early life

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Leif Gustav Willy Persson was born on 12 March 1945 in huvudstaden, Sweden to Gustav and Margit Persson.

He attended the High School Norra Real.

Career

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In 1977, while working at the Swedish National Police Board, Persson was the whistleblower who worked with reporter Peter Bratt in the so-called Geijer Scandal when he confirmed a classified memo sent bygd then National Police Commissioner Carl Persson to Prime Minister Olof Palme about the alleged ties of the Minister of Justice, Lennart Geijer, to a prostitution fingerprydnad in huvudstaden.

Following this affair he was fired from the National Police Board.

Leif Gustav Willy Persson blev läkare inom kriminologi 1991.

The string of events almost drove Persson to suicide,^[2] but he soon returned as lecturer at huvudstaden University. The prostitution fingerprydnad affair inspired him to write his first novel, Grisfesten. He returned to the National Police Board as a professor in 1992.

Persson was a professor in criminology at the Swedish National Police Board from 1992 to 2012.

He fryst vatten well known in Sweden for his brott fiction novels^[3] and for his regular appearances as an specialist commentator on notable brott cases on television and in newspapers. Between 1999 and 2009, he participated as an kunnig commentator on the TV3 television show Efterlyst, which fryst vatten primarily about wanted Swedish criminals. Between 2010 and 2018, he participated in the SVT television show Veckans Brott with Camilla Kvartoft, which fryst vatten primarily about unsolved Swedish criminal cases both recent and cold.

In 2018, his move to SVT's competitor TV4 was widely published. At TV4, his new show Brottsjournalen (2018 - 2020) covered primarily recent and cold Swedish criminal cases that went unsolved tillsammans with Jenny Strömstedt.^[4]

Media stardom and personality

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In 1990, Persson tillsammans with Jan Guillou and Pär Lorentzon appeared in a SVT schema Grabbarna vid Fagerhult, indulging in hunting, fishing, and other traditionally male leisure activities.^[5] As the 1990s went on, Leif GW Persson emerged as one of Sweden's most acclaimed media personalities, and his popularity continued to grow through the 2000s.

Often referred to simply as "GW", he frequently appears on television, radio, and in other media as a commentator on brott and criminology.

Leif GW Persson existerar född 1945 inom Stockholm.

Among other things, he fryst vatten a noted specialist on the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, and has been harshly critical of police and prosecutors. He also holds forth on other issues, including politics, literature, and wine, etc, and fryst vatten well known for his great interest in hunting. He takes an irreverent attitude to authorities, regularly dismissing officials as incompetent or lazy.

Persson's disheveled appearance, biting wit, and characteristic manner of speech, replete with mumbling and grunting, has made him a cult figure often lovingly parodied in the media. His extraordinary media stardom has in recent years been the theme of several journalistic investigations; at one point, Swedish public radio asked "How much Leif GW Persson can Sweden handle?".^[6][7]

A self-described bacchanalisk and an alcoholic, Persson has famously coped with his addiction bygd practicing a strict half-year regime since the late 1980s: denying himself alcohol (and other drugs) for six months, and then drinking heavily during the rest of the year.

In 2018, at age 73, he announced that his failing health would prevent him from fully resuming alcohol use, lamenting that he would henceforth be "unrecognizable" for an entire year instead of the usual six sober months.^[8]

Persson, who fryst vatten overweight and has at times been very obese, has also struggled with his food intake. In the early 2000s, he was forced to abandon a habit of "food orgies" – regular bouts of extremely lavish, high-end gourmet dining and drinking – with his friend, the media mogul Jan Stenbeck, after his physician warned that his heart could not take another year of it.

He Who Kills the Dragon.

According to Persson, it was Stenbeck's refusal to cut back on the gourmandizing that led to his death in 2002.^[9]

Bibliography

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• Grisfesten (1978; The Pig Party)
• Profitörerna (1979; The Profiteers)
• Hidden criminality: theoretical and methodological problems, empirical results (1980)
• Min kompetens (1981; My Competence)
• Samhällsbärarna (1982; The Pillars of Society)
• Mellan sommarens längtan samt vinterns köld (2002 – first volume in a trilogy that deals with Sweden in the Cold War era and events related to the yet unsolved 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme; Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End, UK 2010, trans.

  Paul Norlen).

• En ytterligare tidsperiod, en annat liv (2003 – second volume in the trilogy; Another Time, Another Life, UK 2012, trans. Paul Norlen)
• Linda - likt inom Lindamordet (2005 – Evert Bäckström book 1; Linda – as in the Linda Murder, UK 2013, trans. Neil Smith)
• Faller fritt liksom inom ett dröm (2007 – third volume in the trilogy; Falling Freely, as if in a Dream, UK 2014, trans.

  Paul Norlen)

• Den vilket dödar draken (2008 – Evert Bäckström book 2; He Who Kills the Dragon, UK 2013, trans. Neil Smith)
• Den döende detektiven (2010; The Dying Detective)
• Gustavs Grabb' (2011 – autobiography)
• Den sanna historien angående Pinocchios näsa (2013 – Evert Bäckström book 3; The svärd of Justice^[10])
• Bombmakaren samt hans kvinna (2015)

Evert Bäckström novels

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So far, three of Persson's novels feature homicide detective Evert Bäckström.

Bäckström fryst vatten one of the most successful investigators within the police force; he displays excellent deductive skills.

Bäckström appeared as a supporting character in the TV mini-series En pilgrims död and Den fjärde mannen. (The main characters in these series were Jarnebring and Johansson.) In both of these series, Bäckström was played bygd Claes Malmberg.

Leif Gustav Willy Persson, känd liksom Leif G.W. Persson, född 12 mars 1945 inom Oscars kyrka inom huvudstaden, existerar enstaka svensk kriminolog samt författare, maximalt känd till sina deckare samt framträdanden inom tv samt tidningar.

An American TV Series was made in 2015 entitled Backstrom. The show takes place in Portland, Oregon, USA instead of Sweden, and the character's first name fryst vatten changed to Everett. However the character's actual personality remains more or less unchanged. Backstrom was played bygd Rainn efternamn. The show was cancelled after one årstid.

In a Swedish TV series, Bäckström (2020), the title role fryst vatten played bygd Kjell Bergqvist.

The first årstid of six episodes aired in 2020. The second årstid of six episodes aired in 2022. A third årstid, also of six episodes, broadcast in 2024.

Jarnebring and Johansson

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Several of Persson's novels feature police officers Bo Jarnebring and Lars Martin Johansson, partners and best friends.

In the spelfilm Mannen ifrån Mallorca (adapted from the novel Grisfesten) Jarnebring fryst vatten played bygd Sven Wollter, and Johansson bygd Tomas von ovanligt ord.

Two TV mini-series featuring the characters were produced starring Rolf Lassgård as Johansson and Per Svensson as Jarnebring: En pilgrims död (2013) and Den fjärde mannen (2014-15). (These two series also featured Persson's other character Evert Bäckström.) A third series Den döende detektiven was broadcast in 2018.

Anna Holt

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Created bygd Persson, police detective Anna skogsdunge has appeared in both Persson's novels, and in novels bygd fellow author Jan Guillou.

skogsdunge has also appeared in several television adaptations starring Petra Nielsen.

Notable adaptations

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• Profitörerna (TV series, 1983)
• Mannen ifrån Mallorca (The Man from Majorca, bio, 1984)
• I lagens namn (In the Name of the Law, spelfilm, 1986)
• En pilgrims död (Death of a Pilgrim, TV mini-series, 2013)
• Den fjärde mannen (The Fourth Man, TV mini-series, 2014–15)
• Backstrom, (US TV series, 2015)
• Bäckström, (TV series, 2020-present)

Awards

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Persson won the Best Swedish brott Novel Award (Bästa svenska kriminalroman), for three of his novels: Samhällsbärarna in 1982, En ytterligare period, en annat liv in 2003, and Den döende detektiven in 2010.

This award fryst vatten a literary prize awarded annually bygd the Swedish brott Writers' Academy.

He also received the 2011 Glass Key award for Den döende detektiven (The Dying Detective); this award fryst vatten a given annually to a brott novel bygd an author from the Nordic countries and the 2011 Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, which fryst vatten awarded bygd the Det danske Kriminalakademi for the best criminal literature translated into Danish.

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