Dagmar Maria Lange (31 March 1914, Västerås – 9 October 1991, Nora) was a Swedish author of crime fiction under the pen name Maria Lang. She was one of the first detective novelists in the Swedish language, and her books helped make the genre popular in Sweden.[1]
Lange was born in Västerås to journalist Clas Lange and Elsa Kejser. The family moved to Lindesberg in 1915, when her father was appointed editor and publisher of the newspaper Bergslagernas Tidning. In 1917 her father died from appendicitis, when Dagmar Lange was just two years old. In 1919 her mother married merchant Carl Ivar Olson, and they settled in Nora.[2]
Lange enrolled as a student of Scandinavian languages in Uppsala in 1933,[3] and from 1934 at Stockholms högskola. The subject for her PhD thesis in 1946 was Pontus Wikner.[4] From 1946 to 1968 she worked at Ahlströmska skolan [sv] (Nya Elementarskolan för flickor), a private gymnasium in Stockholm, first as a teacher and eventually as the principal.[5]
Literary careerEdit
Her first novel, Mördaren ljuger inte ensam (The Murderer is Not the Only Liar), was published in 1949 and caused some controversy because two of the main characters lived in a homosexual relationship. The book was given a positive review by Barbro Alving in Dagens Nyheter.[6]
Lange wrote more than 40 detective novels, as well as crime fiction for young adults. Most of her books are set in the fictional Swedish town Skoga, which is based on Lange's home town Nora. She was one of the original 13 members of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy when it was founded in 1971.
Books in SwedishEdit
Mördaren ljuger inte ensam (1949), film 2013
Farligt att förtära (1950)
Inte flera mord (1951), film 2013
En skugga blott (1952)
Rosor, kyssar och döden (1953) Film 2013
Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård (1954), film 1961 2013
Se döden på dig väntar (1955)
Mörkögda augustinatt (1956)
Kung Liljekonvalje av dungen (1957), film 1961 & 2013
^Kärrholm, Sara (2004). "Pusseldeckaren och folkhemmets bortträngda mörker". In Salomon, Kim; Larsson, Lisbeth; Arvidsson, Håkan (eds.). Hotad idyll: berättelser om svenskt folkhem och kallt krig (in Swedish). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. pp. 81–109. ISBN91-89116-76-3.
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