HAKAN NESSER was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers Academy Prize for new authors for "Mind s Eye" (published in Sweden as "Det Grovmaskiga Natet"); he received the best novel award in 1994 for "Borkmann s Point" and in 1996 for "Woman with Birthmark". In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandanavia s Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for "Carambole". Nesser lives in Sweden and London.