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Fjällbacka
“Fishing had been Fjällbacka’s livelihood for centuries. The unforgiving environment and the constant struggle to survive, when everything depended on whether the herring came streaming back or not, had made the people of the town strong and rugged.”
The narrator
On August 30, 1974, the small town of Fjällbacka had no idea that the young Camilla Läckberg, just born, would change its life. In this small fishing village, the future writer’s career seemed to be all mapped out. At the age of five, the young girl published her first story, already particularly dark. Entitled Santa Claus, Tomten in Swedish, this one is short but thrilling and bloody. However, for her 17th birthday, the young woman chose a more singular course of study, namely that of economist. Based in Gothenburg for her education, she moved to Stockholm to work as a product manager for Telia and Fortum, an electricity and telephone provider.
Very quickly, Camilla Läckberg gets bored. Urged on by her mother, brother and husband, she enrolled in the Writing Crime class. There she learned the tricks of the trade and the secrets of writing. Having to rely on her own memories and experiences, she takes Fjällbacka, her hometown, as the setting for her plot. This writing work is the basis of her first novel, The Ice Princess.
The queen of the Swedish detective novel thus begins her dazzling career. “I have noticed that for foreigners, Sweden is an ideal country. The idea that a crime could happen there fascinates them.” confided the author to Elle in 2010. She tells the story of how she brought Fjällbacka to the forefront, but also of how other countries’ images of Swedes are more idyllic than the reality. “These are the people [de Fjällbacka] the real Swedes. Cold looking, extremely shy, they still have in each of their pores a very hard protestant doctrine. In the past, life was difficult in Sweden, it was frowned upon to laugh, to wear anything other than black. So much so that even today it is impolite to say that you are doing well. These people have, like all of us, a relative happiness and a sometimes complicated past…”. Through her novel, and the many other adventures taking Fjällbacka as a setting, Camilla Läckberg shows another face of Scandinavian society that few know.
The Ice Princess won the Grand Prix of detective literature and the best international novel award in 2008.
Fjällbacka
Founded in the 16th century, Fjällbacka is a fishing village that today lives mainly from tourism.
Ingrid Bergman was one of its greatest admirers. The famous Swedish actress had a passion for this small coastal town and spent her summers here. With 1,000 inhabitants all year round, the quiet town became a very popular seaside resort during the vacations, bringing its population to over 20,000 souls. Its colorful houses, seaside walks, islets and the cliff on which it is built, make it a real Swedish gem.
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Fanspots Stories Paris [French Edition]
Fanspots Stories ParisFanspots are legendary images from films, series, music, comics or novels.
These are often anonymous places these are that have become world-famous thanks to pop culture, to the point where they are now inseparable from the works they were used to set.
Amélie, James Bond, Mission Impossible, La Grande Vadrouille, Les Tontons flingueurs, Bref, Call my Agent, Sex & The City, Blake & Mortimer, Spider-Man, Notre-Dame de Paris… Discover the history of the cult locations of the greatest pop culture masterpieces in the City of Light!
Paris filmed, Paris sung, Paris drawn, Paris told… For artists, the City of Light is an extraordinary field of expression and an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Each new work is an outstretched hand to seduce new people, thanks to the dreamers of yesterday and today. Famous or anonymous places then become cult. These are the secrets of a hundred of them revealed in this third volume of the Fanspots Stories collection.
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The coffee ofAmélie, the location of the Corniaud, the bridge of Inception, the seat of the Spectre in James Bond, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the church of Les Tontons Flingueurs, the bar of Bref., the agency in Call my Agent, the restaurant in Emily in Paris, the refuge of Lupin, the Parisian residence of the heroines of Gossip Girl, the firm of In therapy, the works of the Louvre featured in the clip Apeshit by Jay Z & Beyoncé, the Parc Montsouris of Jacques Higelin, the metro station of Poinçonneur des Lilas by Serge Gainsbourg, the café in Paris Le Flore by Etienne Daho, the apartment ofAdèle Blanc-Sec, the lair of Olrik in Blake & Mortimer, the apartment of Arsene Lupin, the home of the Count of Monte Cristo, the address of The Malaussian Family, the police station of Maigret, the Fiat Lux agency of Nestor Burma, the bar of A Moveable Feast, the tavern of Three musketeers…
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By Damien Duarte
Passionné par la culture pop depuis son enfance, ses références vont de Donald Duck à Batman en passant par Marty McFly. Fantripper dans l'âme, voyager sur les traces de Ghostbusters, James Bond ou des héros de romans comme Cotton Malone fait partie d'un séjour idéal et réussi !