Jan Mårtenson Explained

Jan Martenson
Birth Name:Jan Per Gösta Mårtenson
Birth Date:14 February 1933
Birth Place:Uppsala, Sweden
Nationality:Swedish
Occupation:Diplomat

Jan Per Gösta Mårtenson (born 14 February 1933) is a Swedish diplomat who is also famous as the author of some fifty Swedish crime novels.[1]

Biography

Mårtenson has served as Head of the Secretariat for the King of Sweden many years. Jan Mårtenson was also the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and later he held the position of Director-General at the UN Office at Geneva for several years.

Later Jan Mårtenson has served as Deputy Secretary-General of the UN and head of the UN's European headquarters in Geneva. In his free time he writes novels. The main character of most of his crime novels is the fictional antique dealer Johan Kristian Homan.[2]

Crime novels (Swedish titles)

Novels under the signature Mårten Janson

About Jonas Berg

Other novels

Other publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jan Mårtenson . HomanSällskapet . 30 December 2012 . Swedish . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121223083716/http://www.homansallskapet.se/jan.html . 23 December 2012.
  2. Web site: Home . homansallskapet.se.