Nominated for Best Swedish Crime Novel in 2006 by Svenska Deckarakademin for Edward Finnigans upprättelse.Awarded Guldpocket (Gold Pocket) for The Year's Most Sold Swedish Crime Novel (more than 50 000 copies sold) in 2005 for Odjuret.Awarded Stockholm City Newspaper's Book of the Year in 2005 for Box 21.Nominated for Best Swedish Crime Novel in 2005 by Svenska Deckarakademin for Box 21.Awarded Glasnyckeln (The Glass Key Award) in 2005 for Odjuret.Tre Minuter (2016, published in English in 2017 as Three Minutes).Två soldater (2012, published in English in 2013 as Two Soldiers).Tre sekunder (2009, published in English in 2010 as Three Seconds).Edward Finnigans upprättelse (2006, published in English in 2011 as Cell 8).Box 21 (2005, published in English in England as The Vault and in the United States as Box 21 ).Odjuret (2004, published in English as The Beast).Their works have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Russian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Macedonian, and Catalan.
Their novels put a particular emphasis on the roles of victim and perpetrator, offering a morally grey portrayal of motive and responsibility. The duo made their debut with the crime novel Odjuret (English translation: The Beast) in 2004. Hellström, an ex-convict, was one of the founders of Kriminellas Revansch i Samhället (KRIS), an organisation devoted to rehabilitating former criminals. They were full-time writers from 2004 to Hellström's death in 2017.īeforehand, Roslund had worked for 15 years as a news reporter for Rapport News, Aktuellt, and Kulturnyheterna. Roslund & Hellström were a Swedish duo of crime fiction writers composed of journalist Anders Roslund (born 1961) and activist and author Börge Hellström (1957–2017).
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