Varg Veum
Created by Gunnar Staalesens

Down those mean fiords...

Norwegian writer Gunnar Staalesen has written a dozen or so books, numerous short stories and even two graphic novels about hard-working and even more hard-drinking privatdetektiven VARG VEUM, who plies his trade (and does his drinking) in Bergen, Norway. As far as I know only two books have appeared in English, but At Night All Wolves Are Grey is a truly superb, bleak read, well worth looking for. I didn't enjoy the second, whose title I can't remember, half as much, but At Night is a definite keeper.

Staalesen was inspired by hardboiled American detective fiction, and cites Raymond Chandler as his prime inspiration.

UPDATE
(Courtesy of The Rap Sheet)

NOVELS

SHORT STORIES
(These are possibly not all Varg Veum stories. My Norweigan isn't quite what it should be...)

GRAPHIC NOVELS

RELATED LINKS

Contributed by Geoff Bradley, with additional information supplied by Kevin Burton Smith. Illustration by Mike Collins, taken from cover of the De dødes dal graphic novel.


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