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  <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.

Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August, 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke moved to Greenwich Village in New York.

A recurring main character is called Van Veeteren, a detective in the early novels and later the owner of an antique books shop. These books play out in a fictitious city called Maardam, said to be located in northern Europe in a country which is never named but resembles Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Germany. The names however are Dutch.

With his 2006 crime novel Människa utan hund (Human without dog) Nesser introduced a new main character, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti, a Swedish police inspector of italian decent. He has remained the main ”hero” in Nesser’s cime books since then. Barbarotti is a more upbeat character then Van Veeteren and the books ar firmly set in Sweden, however town of Kymlinge is fictious.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Kumla</hometown>  <born_at>02/21/1950</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Borkmann's Point (Inspector Van Veeteren #2)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.49</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>139</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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        <book id="2289516">
  <title><![CDATA[Mind's Eye (Inspector Van Veeteren #1)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Laurie Thompson]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1386181]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.43</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>108</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
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        <book id="4278632">
  <title><![CDATA[Woman with a Birthmark (Inspector Van Veeteren #4)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>56</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="2289517">
  <title><![CDATA[The Return (Inspector Van Veeteren #3)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>54</ratings_count>
  <published>1995</published>  
  
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        <book id="1713081">
  <title><![CDATA[Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.38</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>24</ratings_count>
  <published>1998</published>  
  
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        <book id="6620098">
  <title><![CDATA[Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/161054.H_kan_Nesser]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>12</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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        <book id="1712807">
  <title><![CDATA[Och piccadilly circus ligger inte i kumla]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="1804470">
  <title><![CDATA[En helt annan historia (Barbarotti #2)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>9</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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        <book id="1712832">
  <title><![CDATA[Kära Agnes!]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/161054.H_kan_Nesser]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.20</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="1728362">
  <title><![CDATA[Die Schatten und der Regen.]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Håkan Nesser]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/161054.H_kan_Nesser]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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