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Christoffer Carlsson (Author)

Christoffer Carlsson is a Swedish Author and Criminologist.

His third novel, The Invisible Man from Salem, won the Swedish Crime Writers' Association prize for best crime novel 2013. Aged just twenty-seven at the time, Carlsson remains the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious prize. The English translation of the same book was Marcel Berlin's 'Book of the month' in The Times in May 2015.

Carlsson's first novel for young adults, October is the Coldest Month is expected to be published in English in 2017.

Born in Halmstad in 1986, Carlsson moved to Stockholm in 2005 to study criminology at Stockholm University. He was recognised by the European Society of Criminology for an article published in The British Journal of Criminology. His PhD thesis, Continuities and Changes in Criminal Careers, examines the reasons why many eventually move on from criminal activity.