death_date death_place influenced birth_place pseudonym nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
22 june 1975 malmö , sweden henning mankell , stieg larsson kungsbacka municipality , sweden peter wahloo swedish 5 august 1926 crime fiction per wahlöö
 per fredrik wahlöö novelist , crime reporter
per wahlöö

per fredrik wahlöö -lrb- 5 august 1926 -- 22 june 1975 -rrb- - 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 '' -lrb- a translation of `` den skrattande polisen '' , originally published in 1968 -rrb- 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 his colleague maj sjöwall but never married her .
both were marxists .
he was married to inger wahlöö , née andersson .
he was brother to claes wahlöö .
he died of cancer in malmö in 1975 , aged 48 .
