Born in 1986, Pascal Engman is the best-selling Swedish crime novelist of his generation. His book series about Vanessa Frank has been sold to more than 20 countries.
Pascal Engman, b. 1986, is a Swedish author and journalist.
Following the publication of his first book The Patriots, in 2017, he has since become the best-selling Swedish crime novelist of his generation. He has been acclaimed by Camilla Läckberg, David Lagercrantz, The Swedish Crime Writers' Academy and others as a rising star of Swedish crime fiction. Engman, who resides in his native Stockholm, was born to a Swedish mother and a Chilean father, travels to Chile for the first quarter of each year to write his next book.
After the stand-alone debut novel, Engman began writing a series about police detective Vanessa Frank, with books Tierra Del Fuego (2018), Femicide (2019), and the upcoming title The Widows, to be published in fall 2020. The Vanessa Frank series is sold in over 20 countries and has been translated into various languages, among them Spanish, Italian, German and Polish.
Before beginning his authorship, Engman was a journalist at Swedish evening newspaper Expressen, and one of their most high-profile reporters. In the Vanessa Frank series, he explores extreme fringes of society, such as right-wing nationalists, incels and islamists. Themes such as class and identity are recurrent in Engman's books.