1. “THE ROOM LOCKED” <br />By Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo<br />CHAPTER 24 th<br />Monita met Peter as she had finished her nine year compulsory schooling. They had gotten married and their daughter had been born in the following year. Monita’s plans for higher education had been put on the shelf.<br /> In the summer of their six years of marriage, Peter left Monita and their five year old daughter. The divorce led deterioration in her finances because unemployement had become worse and the lack of jobs was severe even for the academically educated.<br /> For a while she received an income from unemployement insurance but she became very depressed and all her thougths went to the problem of what was she to do to get some money.<br /> She felt less and less content and she had begun to hate this society which boasted of a prosperity actually reserved for a small privileged minority. <br /> One day she met Mauritzon , a little man very polite and very kind with her and they began a relationship that developed to their natural satisfaction. Mauritzon was extremely taciturn about his occupation and she’d quite soon come to realize his activities must be criminals in some way. But she thought of him as a Robin Hood who stolen from the rich to gave to the poor.<br /> He went abroad in some business trips and Monita, having nothing to do , she’d go up to his apartement. She liked sitting there alone , reading, listening to the records . She went into the kitchen and in the closet under the sink , fumbling for the brush, she foud a briefcase which had inside a gun.<br /> She thought that in this black steel thing, perhaps, she had the solution: the freedom she’d been dreaming.<br />THE AUTHORS<br />Per Wahlöö was born in Goteborg in 1926. He graduated in Lund in 1946 and worked as journalist making crimes reports. He wrote scripts to TV and radio and worked as publisher in several magazines.<br /> He was member of several radical groups and in 1961 met Maj Sjowall and they got married in 1962.<br /> Maj Sjowall was born in Stockholm. She was a journalist and she worked as publisher and as editor, too. They set up a literary magazine and they together wrote detective novels ( after putting their children in bed )<br /> They intended to use detective novels as a way to examine the ideology and the morality in the well-being State. Coming in favour of communism, they were the first in writing about contradictions in their country . They were the creators of social thrillers and Henning Mankell and many others get inspiration from them.<br /> Mr Wahlöö died in 1975 and Maj nowadays works as translator.<br />Their novels : “ Roseanna”<br /> “ The man in the balcony “<br /> “The Laughing Policeman “<br /> “ The Man Who Went up in Smoke “<br /> <br /> ……<br /> <br />INTERVIEW<br />What’s your opinion about novels of inspector Martin Beck ?<br />Martin’s Beck novels were a Sueden’s close-up at the end of the sixties. They shawed us all changes in Suedish society : from the disappearance of trams, urbans changes, fashion in that moment, until demostrations against Vietnam war…<br />What do the authors think about Suedish society ?<br />They were very critics with the well-being society. Seeing them from the perspective that this 40 years give us we could consider their novels right in the present-days: the complaints against consumism in Christmas, the rich and powerful benefiting from their privileges, drugs damage , the different attitudes towards USA …<br />What do authors think about police officers ?<br />They considered Police were a panda of ass. Police were a needed harm, but the authors liked all characters that tey had made.<br />