XXIII edition
10/15 December 2013
EDITORIALS
NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
Scerbanenco
Conversations
Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
Scerbanenco
Conversations
Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
Kullunge
PHOTOGALLERY HIGH RES
"This is a story about people who disappear. Which is a very strange occurrence in the small community in which they live." Monica Kristensen writes crime novels set on the Svalbard Islands, where she herself lived for many years. "I do a lot of research," she says. "I like being precise and correct in my writing. This probably comes from my being a scientist." Her books feature Knut Fjeld, a career police officer who at the end of 12 novels becomes the police chief of the Svalbard Islands. Kullunge, the second book in the saga, takes place in the mid 90s and is set in Longyearbyen, the tiny capital of one of the northernmost populated places on Earth. Five-year-old Ella disappears without a trace from her nursery school garden. The suspects include her father, an alcoholic mining engineer and smuggler whose wife has just left him and who has disappeared, and a vagrant that was noticed in the area. The novel, as Kristensen notes in the introduction, is not a "documentary." The places and mines that the author frequented for many years are the backdrop to a story of glacial atmospheres and characters.
Born in Torsby, Sweden, Monica Kristensen moved to Kongsvinger, Norway as a young child. A glaciologist with a degree in physics, after two years spent observing the aurora borealis on the Svalbard Islands, she became a world renowned polar explorer and took part in numerous expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic (including a famous trip following Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s route), which in 1989 earned her the Royal Geographic Society’s prestigious Founder’s Gold Medal for an excellent contribution to scientific discovery in Antarctica. In 1991-1992 she founded the Blåenga research station in Coats Land, in western Antarctica, the first part of the Aurora climate research project.
Kings Bay saken, Forl. Press, Oslo, 2012
Den døde i Barentsburg, Forl. Press, Oslo, 2011
Operasjon Fritham, Forl. Press, Oslo, 2009
Kullunge, Forl. Press, Oslo, 2008
Hollendergraven, Forl. Press, Oslo, 2007
Dager mot Antarktis, Grøndahl Dreyer, Oslo, 1993
Det magiske landet, Grøndahl, Oslo, 1989
Mot 90 grader syd, Grøndahl, Oslo, 1987
PHOTOGALLERY HIGH RES
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