page_title: Kerstin Ekman
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Kerstin Ekman / Life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman at Göteborg Book Fair 2011.
context_page_description: Kerstin Lillemor Ekman, née Hjorth, is a Swedish novelist.
context_section_description: Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna and Dödsklockan) but later went on to psychological and social themes. Among her later works is Mörker och blåbärsris (1972) (set in northern Sweden) and Händelser vid vatten (1993), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.
  Ekman was elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. In 2018, the Academy granted her resignation, the rules of membership having changed to allow members to resign.
  In 1998, she was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal.
caption: Kerstin Ekman at Göteborg Book Fair 2011
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D80", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.3 (Macintosh)", "Image DateTime": "2021:08:27 18:45:49", "Image ExifOffset": "226", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "646", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "12885", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/200", "EXIF FNumber": "14/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "400", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0231", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2011:09:25 10:07:46", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2011:09:25 10:07:46", "EXIF OffsetTime": "+02:00", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "477741/62500", "EXIF ApertureValue": "1485427/500000", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "-1", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Spot", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "200", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area"}