SØREN SVEISTRUP (b. 1968) is a screenwriter and author and had his debut in 2017 with The Chestnut Man, a “cunningly plotted” and “tension-charged debut” New York Times and Financial Times respectively wrote about the novel which won the Barry Award for Best First Mystery/Crime Novel and was a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year.
SØREN SVEISTRUP’S FOLLOW-UP, Count to One, Count to Two, published in 2024, reunites Mark Hess, a Danish investigator working out of Europol headquarters in Haag, and Naia Thulin, newly transferred to NC3, the Danish National Center for Cybercrime, in a complicated case of murderous stalking. The Chestnut Man is published in more than 30 countries and both The Chestnut Man and Count to One, Count to Two sold to Netflix.
SVEISTRUP HAS WRITTEN a number of TV-series, among them the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning Forbrydelsen, (aka The Killing) starring Sofie Gråbøl in her trademark sweater. Søren Sveistrup brings his screenwriter’s sense of scene, dialogue and heart wrenching plots to his novels combining it with his own deep understanding of fear, longing and anger in his nuanced characters. His depictions of Copenhagen, often in the grips of stormy weather, snow and rain, often casts the city in an important supporting role. Søren Sveistrup graduated as screenwriter from The Danish School of Film in 1997 and lives with his wife and two sons just outside Copenhagen.
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