David Lagercrantz

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All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

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I'm always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I've written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back - or not.

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Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

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My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

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We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

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