Stieg Trenter Explained

Stieg Trenter
Birth Name:Stig Johansson
Birth Date:14 August 1914
Birth Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Pseudonym:Stieg Trenter
Nationality:Swedish
Genre:Crime fiction
Children:Laura

Stieg Ivar Trenter (14 August 1914 – 4 July 1967) was a Swedish journalist and popular crime writer.

Biography

Born Stig Johansson in Stockholm, he started out by using the name Stieg Trenter as pseudonym but soon changed his name to this in real life as well. His first novel was Ingen kan hejda döden ("No One Can Stop Death"), published in 1943.

Stieg Trenter was a crime writer. The main characters in many of his books are crime investigating press photographer Harry Friberg and his crime solving partner Detective Inspector Vesper Johnson. New editions of his books continue to be published.

His plots has been called adequate by some experts and praised by others. His investigating main character is Friberg, from whose perspective the story is told, and this character is said to have been based upon the press photographer K.W. Gullers, Trenter's friend.

His book series on Harry Friberg contains 23 books. These books are his most famous but he also published other independent crime novels.

Stieg Trenter married the author Ulla Trenter in 1960. They are parents of the author Laura Trenter.

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