you know 1st so. i actually think because i write it's local people are getting curious. writers who doesn't necessarily come from their own country i trust my readers i trust their imagination and intelligence so so i can just focus on writing about all slow about the people i know about the things that i'm interested in and just trust that they will read the subtext i mean if you if you if you drop in on any conversation you will you will quickly get what it's about you may even be the cutest bug want to talk involved. in with it will fill in the blank spaces that. cultural distance now results now i heard you say that you had their perfectly cloudless their region child will arrive before your father revealed the biggest drama of his life his collaboration

away with an absence what was so shocking to you about that i think it was it was the fact that i grew up hearing the stories from my mother's side of the family who was in the resistance movement and who were active my road his were active fighting the nazis and and so it was i grew up with this image of. the hero of the resistance and the evil of the german helmets when my father told me at the age of 15 you know that. it's time that you learn what i was doing during the war the 1st image that came to mind was this german helmets on the head of my father it just it just didn't fit because my my father at the time and he would mean being so was my hero. and i

think not only being my father but the us as a person as the as a character now that state of shock a state of calm native just as that experience is very essential to all crime novels this is what you ultimately teach here readers turning their imaginary world upside down is that just laid sure retreat for you or some sort of psychological revenge that you carry out throughout their lives what i learned just sort of the hard way was what we see in modern storytelling is. the hero being turned into the villain and vice versa. it's the thin line between good and evil it's. looking at the character's life and actions in a new light and try to have the contradictions that is in everybody's lives that we

you know one morning we wake up most of the time we we hope to be the heroes in our room movies but sometimes we we have a situation where if we have an almost look at ourselves and our actions we have to admit that we were doing and i think. trying to it's not except at least realized that this movie or that's how we act as human beings. it makes the stories all our lives slightly different and i think that's a kind of stories are right where the. protagonist of the story is. sometimes the hero and sometimes not and you are supposed to see the world through these characters odds and accept that's how it is in you dealt with your father's difficult moral choice in your 3rd novel the redbreast. dhows into the history of

no race collaboration of analysis did you feel any conflict of interest when writing it was there any pressure between you as a son and you as a writer. i think that it's. it's impossible to do to try to. remain objective as a writer. at least as a writer of fiction i don't think that's the point i don't think there's any meaning in trying is easy to stick to such as historical details you have to do that i am what i'm doing is. a pig 5 different individuals who have different reasons for joining them all says to try at least to give. multiple . views of. what was going on what the future looked like what the political situation was but also have a diversity of very human motives selfish motives

political motives. even idealistic motives which were. also part of why some there and some would join the nonces and thinking they were fighting and fighting for their country and defending the borders when your father made that decision to join the german troops i think most of the stalin crimes and the abuses of the communist regime were not yet known the documents about the gulags and the purchase would come out here as later and similarly most of the crimes of the nats regime were not known at that time had he known all of that do you think he would have made the same choice. i don't think so he was when he told to me. about his after the war he had to spend 3 years in jail before for having him full to the losses and he said i think that was a fair punishment for being as wrong as i was. i

didn't this is silly make 2 wrong moral choices but i made the wrong choice. based on lack of information i did i made it on the basis of what i thought was the future of europe and my country was the old democracy is being almost bankrupt united states being on the other side of the world and it looked like the future or was in the hands of either stalling or hitler due to strong men in europe at the top reading that book as a russian it was a very unusual experience for for me because we as a nation are far more in a vast in seeing ourselves as a country that resisted. and i think for the russians it's much more difficult to separate the personal in the law for our relatives from the historical reality of war since you think still attempted to do some of the idea have any advice for your russian fans today and i think that you know for me it was quite it was easy to put

some song i had to sit down and really talk to my father and those difficult questions my father was were open about it he said you know if you don't want to talk about it we don't need to talk about it they asked me any question you like and just spending time with him and having him telling his own story not making excuses for. what he did made me in the you know any story can be told in the least 2 ways you know i was born in leningrad and i grew up hearing the stories of the heroism of the people and it was also around the teenage years when i 1st read about how was that people who sacrificed their lives for others and people who ate others to survive and sometimes including their own children they leave on the same streets under the same circumstances. you dealt with people. who crossed into the dark side so to say in most of your books do you

understand what is it that ultimately separates the monsters from the heroes no i that i don't and is. as a writer of fiction we sometimes or at least i sometimes feel like the most. useless member of society because what i'm doing i'm just asking questions i can't give any answers. i don't do scientific work but i do think that fiction is. necessary for asking those questions how people choose given moral dilemmas like my father did. during the 2nd world war . those choices and how we make those choices or to me the most central theme of all my books are actually one of the characters in. prisons that choice between hitler and stalin as a choice between

a sister nation germany and variance the russians and i think had geopolitical choice is back and it is even framed in the same way do you think their regions may be faced with the same. your father faced 2 years back. i think the choice will come back. you know time after time whenever there is a conflict of interest we sometimes come tuesday with moral choices. but the conflict of interest will always be there of course what we're striving for is to is to make our interest internationally common that we share interest but working to towards that goal is of course a long long way to go and along that way i'm sure there will be people all over the world having to make that choice and choices but i think that's just ridiculous of relevant to the regions because there are lots and lots of nato and russia

accessorize this ride of the in the engine coastline doesn't make you worried do you pay attention to that when i was in the army over the years. i spent a year on the on the russian border of old clothes close to the russian border and it was always it was always the grio tension it was always the image of the russian enemy but it was very strange because this was in the north of norway and on personal level there was this kinship or or friendly attitude toward russians. because the russians had sort of saved the north of norway and the corporation when the resistance movement on the russians during world war 2 so it was. also the same . docs in the way that they were supposed to be the enemy but on the personal level you could feel that the people living there they were they were more worried that.

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heard you say that it's impossible to write anything without being political in some sense or another and. in another novel of your is there is no man of the american president since you into the narrative do you think donald trump's name will ever appear in your books i'm not sure i think he's too obvious in a way it's. better to refer to an american leader over a certain kind and i think he will he will spring to mind so i don't think to seize the name it's not even this is a real thing the way political candidates present themselves as also a way of telling a story more so about their societies down involve themselves and i think we can see in particular in western politics that voters who used to prefer sanitised picture perfect candidates increasingly all form. a character is of a certain kind more raggett characters as

a storyteller how do you interpret that. i think it's people are getting in bits it's hard with the the way the democracy work no not necessarily democracies but the way the elite house has gradually taken all the politics it may not be the case in every country but i think definitely in countries like you know the states it's a reaction it's people really using democracies in the way democracy is you could say it shouldn't be used but then again should be used to choose through candidates . i think you know where. it is still it is still the ideal of the. politicians being close to the to the people so it's not that need to get rid of the elite and choose somebody from the people one of the reasons why harry hole your main protagonist is so appealing is because he has the vices and the

vulnerabilities of a common man but he can also be the winner of the day from time to time i'm not comparing him to donald trump in any way but i don't just mean that they do have something in common at least in terms of this ruggedness that they. will definitely . i think. the big difference is of course. some of the people in power in the room today seem to really. admire themselves in the case is the opposite he despises himself and he's leaning his services. to the public. in a way that it's he's g.t. but he has no woman visions so i think in some ways similar in most ways is. it your work has been criticized by sound for its fascination of in the traditional

some within say patriarchal masculinity harry hole is ultimately an old natural manholes lays dragons and saves maidens. since norway is a global advocate of equality have you ever felt the pressure of putting her whole in a position of pushing a stroller or giving him the female boss. no no not really i mean the story is about and the big jewel is in the vigil story and in my case or in the his case this is the individual. i would never. you know even nurture the idea of writings. oris that would have a function in society in informing people's political attitudes or. having my stories uniformed in ways which would fit into what's what is on the

agenda of. today's media and interesting harriette the famine is with as appealing to their readers as harry the guy's guy. and there were really thought of harry being. popular characters on the story writing about harry i remember i mean after all the percent of readers or women so if you if you really want to have a big with a ship you should use or you should maybe have. those with theirs in the back you mind and then we're going to remain my 1st novel i have are is sleep with a prostitute in sydney. and i was maybe think you and i when i wrote that ok. just gory. needs for him to do that but. he will definitely not be popular with with women but he never know because i think there is actually

a very interesting trend in western fiction. people talk about women's empowerment batter at are the sales of the books that show a man in dominant position 50 shades of grey is the vast example but i think you're going to also fit into that how do you explain that is there a disconnect between what people say publicly or politically or what they prefer privately well i do think as long as the stories are honest if as long as you represent the my. way of thinking and his behavior in a way that is believable and in the way that can be explained then i think it's it's interesting i think that over the novels we function as a reaction to what is going on in society. and we are always. most of those locally we are intellectually curious so we will always look for the opposite point of view in in the snowman you deal specifically with the topic of infidelity and

how differently it's perceived by men and women it wasn't just a convenient plot for you as a novelist or did you have some sort of a mad a mass as an author for all the straying women out there. no i don't think so i can't really remember how our our came up with a plot or actually this moment started with the title the snowman which i represented for a friend of mine and was making or making a movie as a potential title for the movie but he didn't use it so it started me thinking about thinking about this. as not i can. but and then i read. for me sort of disturbing fact based on research was that. every 50 percent have a different problem from who you believe is your father this was the swedish review

actually the number was 20 percent in a no i didn't believe in 20 percent so i said ok let's. wise it down to 15 percent and which led to the research house has confirmed and to me that. it was i think it was more the motive or how you put important. knowing who you follow is that it is something that we to some extent. tried to pretend is not important along with that society has sort of taken on the role of the family and that family and blog is not that important but of course i think it's rooted that we in order to know who we are we need to know who our parents are which again. maybe points back to my own background but you also have in that specific you know you have several examples of fatherhood and sometimes people who are not father is

a more i kinder to the children and people who are biological fathers i can clearly see from your work that this topic of fatherhood is important to you while you have a whole series of children's books why why is it so appealing to you as a writer. i don't know it was it was never like i said it's. thinking that ok i'm going to write about father son relationships i can just see that he is important for me because i'm writing about that and many more books i started out with different agenda and the diaries were involved and you know it has even made me try to analyze my relationship to my father was it as good as i remember it. and i think it is but i still think maybe because i love my father so much there is still that longing for. the of having you probably still not having followed the maybe because i've seen close friends of mine who didn't have

a good relationship with the father and. for me that void. loss to me would be so big. it is something that i've tried to inspect in my stories i heard somebody say that it's our parents who screw hands up who make us into the monsters we are and it's the children give us a chance to straighten ourselves out and to become here is again to believe in that . no not really it's interesting i mean right now if you listen to. in the the behavioral lists. they are saying no. you come you know readymades your. it's hugely. exaggerated to what extent parents really can influence the children. even the screws that we go to are not important. we really can't be changed so if

that's the case as parents who are you know we can you know it's there's not the most we can do now ear a very versatile writer your have crime novels you have children's literature you have tried your hand at shakespeare you wrote a very newsy t.v. series do you still get the kick and the excitement from the writing as you have been writing your 1st book you know. i mean when i wrote my 1st book i didn't have any idea so i just i really enjoyed reading your biography how possessed your world by the you know almost persist with the with the process of writing just putting words on the page and seeing that this is his job to desist lowly forming into into a novel so then installed with the process and the ideas came afterwards i still get a kick out. our writing when it works it doesn't you know i don't like

any other. normal person i don't do good work every day but those days were. good work. it's a great day and it's the same feeling and he said in one of the injuries that you would trade all your writing success to be a professional football player which is very similar to how comedian a french writer who got noble peace prize nobel prize for literature said he was also asked right here with how he would choose between theater and football and he said that he would choose football without any hesitation what is it about that game that is so appealing to writers. think stuart said the same thing about that and it wasn't even the football career which is playing one cup final at wembley. i don't i think it's of course is something that we grew up with. is the dream of. making the perfect. birth of gold it's the

physical is something you can you you can touch i was just. i don't for many years now rock climbing i started quite late in life and i did my 1st well it was a difficult route that i've been working on and when i came down i got the message out for the 1st on my book was on the top of the u.k. besa list and my climbing partner asked me you know what makes you most happy that you are on top they all just did this route and i had to admit it was doing the route which was for me a personal challenge she was moved climbing history in in any way but it's just the fact that you have done the physical work you have done a good move yourself you could. it was so concrete being. a bestseller it's it depends on so many things i mean there are so many brilliant novels being published every day that won't be noticed i guess it's just

a feeling that scoring a goal and then a bold bodies it is it's a very physical thing well we have to leave it there but thank you very much for being so generous with us thank you encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and of this year again same place same time here and all the party.

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