Biography
Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 – 22 June 1975) – in English translations often identified as Peter Wahloo – was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975. In 1971, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. Wahlöö and Sjöwall also wrote novels separately.
Wahlöö was born in Tölö parish, Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland. Following school, he worked as a crime reporter from 1946 onwards. After long trips around the world he returned to Sweden and started working as a journalist again.
He had a thirteen-year relationship with Sjöwall but they never married, as he already was married. Both were Marxists. Wahlöö's career in journalism started in 1947 in Sydsvenskan in Malmö and continued in 1949 at the new Evening Post, where he was a permanent employee, to 1953. He moved onto freelance work in the 1950s, writing theater reviews and film articles for various newspapers including for the newspapers in Norrköping before moving to Stockholm. By May 1964 Per Wahlöö's journalistic path was said to be complete. Subsequently, he was involved in the New Left journal Tidsignal (Time Signal) (1965–1970) where he was part of the editorial board, among others including the writer Kurt Salomonson.A leftist tendency and a dramatically effective narrative distinguished Wahlöö's early novels about power and the right, for example A Necessary Action from 1962, which depicts Franco's Spain, and his Dictatorship series. From the mid-1960s, he wrote together with life companion Maj Sjöwall a series of detective novels with criminal investigator Martin Beck as protagonist. Several of them have been filmed, and a Swedish TV film series began running in 1997, with Peter Haber as Martin Beck. The series was bought by the BBC in 2015, and shown in the United Kingdom with English subtitles.Per Wahlöö died in Malmö in 1975, after an unsuccessful operation on the pancreas (necessitated by cancer). He is buried in the memorial garden at Malmo Sankt Pauli's central cemetery.
Filmography
all 71
Movies 70
Writer 66
TV Shows 1
Beck 50 - Deadlock (2023)
Beck 48 - Quid Pro Quo (2023)
Beck 47 - Dödsfällan (2022)
Beck 46 - Den gråtande polisen (2022)
Beck 45 - 58 Minutes (2022)
Beck 44 - Rage Room (2022)
Beck 43 - Ett nytt liv (2021)
Beck - Den förlorade sonen (2021)
Beck 41 - Döden i Samarra (2021)
Beck 40 - Utom rimligt tvivel (2020)
Beck 39 - Undercover (2020)
Beck 38 - Djävulens advokat (2018)
Beck 37 - Utan uppsåt (2018)
Beck 36 - The Thin Ice (2018)
Beck 35 - Your Own Blood (2018)
Beck: The Last Day (2016)
Beck 33 - End of the Road (2016)
Beck 32 - Steinar (2016)
Beck 31 - Gunvald (2016)
Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders (2015)
Beck 29 - Invasion (2015)
Beck 28 - The Family (2015)
Beck 27 - Room 302 (2015)
Beck 26 - Buried Alive (2010)
Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm (2009)
Beck 24 - In the Name of God (2007)
Beck 23 - The Silent Scream (2007)
Beck 22 - The Weak Link (2007)
Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting (2007)
Beck 20 - The Lawyer (2007)
Beck 19 - The Vulture (2007)
Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar (2006)
Beck 17 - The Scorpion (2006)
Beck 16 - The Last Witness (2002)
Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball (2002)
Beck 14 - The Advertising Man (2002)
Beck 13 - Sender Unknown (2002)
Beck 12 - The Loner (2002)
Beck 11 - The Cartel (2001)
Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face (2001)
Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance (2001)
Beck (1999)
Beck - Spår i mörker (1998)
Beck 07 - The Money Man (1998)
Beck 06 - The Monster (1998)
Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl (1998)
Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye (1998)
Beck 03 - White Nights (1998)
Beck - The Man with the Icons (1997)
Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy (1997)
Stockholm Marathon (1994)
Polismördaren (1994)
Mannen på balkongen (1993)
Polis polis potatismos (1993)
Roseanna (1993)
Beck – De gesloten kamer (1993)
Brandbilen som försvann (1993)
Záhada zamčeného pokoje (1986)
Kamikaze 1989 (1982)
Гибель 31 отдела (1981)
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1980)
Unfinnished Dinner (1979)
Black Sun (1978)
The Assignment (1977)
Man on the Roof (1976)
The Laughing Policeman (1973)
Roseanna (1967)
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person (1967)
Nightmare (1965)
Morianna (1965)
Flygplan saknas (1965)
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GenderMale
Birthday1926-08-05
Deathday1975-06-22 (48 years old)
Birth PlaceGothenburg, Sweden
RelationshipsInger Wahlöö (1954-01-01 - 1957-01-01)
FatherWaldemar Wahlöö
CitizenshipsSweden
AwardsEdgar Awards
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