歐洲十大知名犯罪小說作家
Arnaldur Indridason
Iceland
Meet Inspector Erlendur. Lugubrious, lonely and brilliant at his job. He tries to patch up failed relationships, most notably with his drug-addict daughter and estranged son, but mostly fails, and sits at home reading about death and desolation. His problems date to his childhood, when his brother disappeared in a blizzard, and Erlendur survived. Decades later, he is still looking for the body – and solving crimes in a country vividly brought to life. Or perhaps vivid is not the best adjective: there is plenty of gloom, harsh living, and bad, bad weather. Wonderful
銀德瑞達森
冰島
在他的小說中你會碰到一位叫厄蘭度的偵探，他孤獨而極具偵探天賦。他極力想挽救與吸毒的女兒和疏離的兒子之間失敗的關係，然而卻依然失敗。他獨坐時閱讀死亡與孤寂。他的問題來自於童年，在一場暴風雪中他的弟弟失蹤了，而厄蘭度自己卻倖存下來。然而在幾十年後，他仍在尋找弟弟的屍體——同時在一個刻畫生動的國家裏解決疑難罪案。也許“生動”這個詞用得不好，因爲那裏充滿了陰鬱、艱難的生存、還有糟糕糟糕的天氣。很精彩~！
Henning Mankell
Sweden
Read some of his non-Wallander novels – for example Depths, The Man from Beijing, or Italian Shoes – and you can see quite how impressive a writer Mankell is, and why he has sold 30m books. But it was the creation of Inspector Kurt Wallander that made Mankell so popular, turned Ystad into a tourist destination and started the phenomenal worldwide interest in Scandinavian crime writing, and gloom. “I’m not sure melancholia is a dominant trait of Swedish or Scandinavian literature,” Mankell has said. There’s plenty of it, though, in the 10 Wallander novels
賀寧·曼凱爾
瑞典
讀一讀曼凱爾並非以沃藍德爲主角的其他小說，比如《死亡》，《北京來的男人》或《一雙意大利鞋子》，你就能瞭解他是一個多麼令人印象深刻的作家，以及爲什麼他能賣出3000萬本小說了。但使曼凱爾聲名鵲起的，還是偵探沃藍德這個人物的創造，而小說中作爲場景的Ystad城從此也變成了一個旅遊勝地，另外就是他由此開啓了北歐犯罪小說在全世界讀者中的興趣——連帶其陰鬱風格。“我並不確定憂鬱是瑞典或北歐文學的一個主導特徵，”曼凱爾曾說。但是在他的10本沃藍德偵探小說中，確實有夠料的憂鬱成分。
Fred Vargas
France
Frédérique Vargas is an archaeologist and historian whose imaginative characters put most of America’s top-rated crime writers to shame. One of her Commissaire Adamsberg series revolves around a modern-day town crier in Paris; another follows a trail of mutilated sheep, and a third features a detective who talks in verse and – while on witness protection duty, and from the safety of a broom cupboard – writes down the works of Racine in large letters so his grandmother can read them. Vargas’s novels have deservedly won many awards
弗雷德·瓦加斯
法國
瓦加斯是一個考古學家和歷史學家，她那極富想象力的人物創造可以使大部分美國頂級犯罪小說作家自慚形穢。Commissaire Adamsberg系列中的一本是圍繞着一個巴黎的現代城市公告員展開的；另一本則從一隻受殘傷的綿羊留下的血跡找到了線索；第三本刻畫了一位言辭如詩的偵探，他在保護證人以及一架金雀花櫥櫃的安全，在他寫給老祖母的大號字的信中一切祕密漸漸揭開。瓦加斯的小說已經名至實歸地獲得了許多獎項。
Sj?wall and Wahl??
Sweden
Besides Indridason and Mankell, Scandinavia has given us Stieg Larsson, Karin Fossum (brilliant) and Jo Nesb? (too Americanised). Beyond these big names, Karin Alvtegen’s haunting novels are matched by ?ke Edwardson, Kerstin Ekman, Mari Jungstedt, Asa Larsson and H?kan Nesser. They all owe a debt to Maj Sj?wall and Per Wahl??, a couple of radical journalists who would sit and write every evening after putting the children to bed. Their 10-book Martin Beck series, written between 1965 and 1975, year of Wahl??’s death, set the standard. A must-read
Sj?wall和Wahl??
瑞典
除了銀德瑞達森和曼凱爾之外，北歐還給了我們史迪格．拉森, Karin Fossum（非常聰明的作家）和Jo Nesb?（過於美國化）。除了這些大名鼎鼎的人之外，卡琳．亞弗提根的犯罪追蹤小說還有可相匹敵的作家如?ke Edwardson, Kerstin Ekman, Mari Jungstedt, Asa Larsson和 H?kan Nesser。而這些人都曾從Sj?wall和Wahl??那裏吸取養分。這對夫婦是激進主義記者，每天晚上在安排孩子睡下之後他們便坐下來寫作。他們合作的10本《警探馬丁·貝克》系列小說是在1965到1975年之間完成的。1975年Wahl??逝世。這個系列爲後來者奠定了基調。這是你必讀的偵探小說。
Petros Markaris
Greece
There is no better writer on traffic jams anywhere in the world. Markaris, a successful playwright and screenwriter, uses the traffic as a way of portraying the mess that is modern Athens, and offers plenty more on its confused politics and business life. His central character, Inspector Costas Haritos, was a “baddie” under the military dictatorship. He reads dictionaries, jokes about racism and immigration – “There are two things I can’t stand. Racism, and blacks” – and loves stuffed peppers, his wife’s recipe for which appears as an addendum to one novel Photograph: PR
馬克瑞斯
希臘
全世界沒有別的作家能把交通擁堵寫得更好了。馬克瑞斯是成功的舞臺劇作家和電影劇本作家。他利用雅典的交通擁堵描繪了現代雅典人內心的混亂，而通過描寫雅典忙亂的政治和經濟生活他告訴給人們的則更多。他的核心人物偵探卡洛斯是希臘軍事獨裁時代一個不守規矩的傢伙，他閱讀辭典，開種族主義和移民的玩笑——“我有兩件事幹脆受不了，就是種族主義和黑人。”這個偵探喜歡吃釀青椒，而他老婆做的釀青椒還出現在一部小說《PR》結尾的補圖上
Pierre Magnan
France
His career as a crime writer did not take off until he was 56, and he is still going strong in his 80s. Magnan has rarely ventured outside Provence, where his knowledge of local dialect has tested his translators. That might explain, at least partially, why some of his books had been around for 25 years before being published in English. They are quirky, and while the two linked by the character Séraphin Monge (The Murdered House, Beyond the Grave) bring to mind Jean de Florette, the Commissaire Laviolette series of three will be a pleasure for fans of Fred Vargas. Thoroughly enjoyable
皮埃爾·馬格南
法國
他作爲犯罪小說作家的事業直到56歲纔開始，而直到80多歲時他仍然創作激情不減。他很少走出過法國的普羅旺斯省，因此他作品中的地方知識和方言對翻譯者而言是個考驗。這也許可以部分地解釋爲什麼他的有些書直到25年之後纔出了英文版。他作品的風格是詭異離奇的，而他《被謀殺的房子》中那個主角Séraphin Monge會使人們聯想起另一位著名犯罪小說家弗雷德·瓦加斯（上邊介紹過）筆下的人物 Jean de Florette。因此他的 Commissaire Laviolette三部曲對瓦加斯的粉絲來講也一定充滿了樂趣，徹底地充滿了樂趣。
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Spain
Pepe Carvalho is another detective who likes his food – so much so that there is a book of his recipes, along with more than a dozen novels, written between 1972 and 2000, three years before Vázquez Montalbán’s death. There is also a special tourist route around Barcelona for fans of Carvalho, who knows the seedy side of the city as well as the best restaurants. Political corruption and justice are themes that run throughout, alongside discourses on cultural identity, while two novels focus on sport, Offside and An Olympic Death. Vázquez Montalbán was a diehard Barcelona fan and leftist
芒塔爾班
西班牙
皮普·卡瓦羅是另一位好吃的偵探——這位書中人物的食譜甚至後來出版成了一本書。作者芒塔爾班自1972年到2000年寫了超過一打以上的偵探小說，去世前三年才停筆。他塑造的人物偵探卡瓦羅有成羣的粉絲，而在巴塞羅那還有一條因他的故事而知名的特殊旅遊路線——卡瓦羅瞭解這個城市破敝骯髒的一面，也知道最好的餐館。政治腐敗和公正是作者所有作品中貫穿的主題，還有他對西班牙文化定位的長篇討論。另有兩部小說是以體育運動爲焦點展開的——《越位》和《奧林匹克之死》。芒塔爾班是巴塞羅那的頑固熱愛者，他還是一個左派人士。
Jean-Claude Izzo
France
The Marseilles trilogy, written in the 1990s and featuring Fabio Montale (played on screen by Alain Delon), showcases the city through the eyes of an immigrant who, unlike his troublesome boyhood friends, became a cop. The hard-boiled Izzo is a leading name in Mediterranean noir, along with Massimo Carlotto (who spent many years in prison for murder, before being pardoned). The New York Times says Izzo’s books “are so thick with local colour it almost smothers the story”. There would surely have been more to enjoy had Izzo not died of lung cancer, aged 54 and at the height of his fame, in 2000
讓-克洛德·伊佐
法國
馬賽三部曲寫於20世紀90年代，書中刻畫了一位警察偵探蒙代爾（由阿蘭·德龍在銀幕上扮演），這個系列通過偵探蒙代爾——移民出身，但不同於他少年時代的朋友而成爲一名警察——的眼睛，向人們展示了馬賽這座城市。風格無情的伊佐是地中海黑色偵探小說流派中的領潮人物，另一位等量級的人物是Massimo Carlotto（他在監獄中度過很多年，罪名是謀殺，之後受赦免出獄）。《紐約時報》稱伊佐的書“地方色彩如此濃厚，使得故事本身都快壓得沒氣了。”本來我們還可以欣賞更多他的作品，但他在2000年54歲的時候死於肺癌，當時他正處於聲名的巔峯。
Andrea Camilleri
Italy
Having come late in life to writing, Camilleri thought he would just write a couple of books featuring DI Salvo Montalbano when he created him in 1994. The series now stands at 12, and Camilleri, who will be 86 this year, has become Italy’s best-selling and most loved author. He starts the day with a beer, smokes like a chimney, and is wonderfully engaging company. Montalbano is named after Vázquez Montalbán, whose writing and politics Camilleri greatly respects, and there are clear similarities between the Sicilian and Pepe Carvalho. If you haven’t read them, you have a treat in store
安德烈·卡米樂
意大利
如今這一系列現在已經有了12本，而今年已有86歲的卡米樂也已經成爲意大利最暢銷和最受愛戴的作者。每天他以一杯啤酒開始生活，他抽菸如同個大煙囪，他還有很多很好的朋友。小說中的人物Montalbano是他以自己極尊重其作品和政治主張的西班牙作家芒塔爾班（如上介紹過）命名的。他筆下這位出身西西里的偵探與芒塔爾班筆下的卡瓦羅有清晰的相似之處。如果你還沒有讀過這些故事，去發現那寶藏吧。
Timothy Williams
France
A questionable choice, as he was born in Walthamstow (Brits are not included in “Euro” crime writing), but he lived in Italy for years, moved to Guadeloupe, and holds dual nationality. His latest novel is available only in French, so if I make him French rather than British he gets in (admittedly unfair on two other Anglos, whose detectives work in Italy and Spain – the late Michael Dibdin and the brilliant Robert Wilson). The five books in Williams’s Commissario Trotti series, written from 1982–96, are hard to find,
but if you liked Zen (Dibdin’s books or the TV series) you’ll enjoy Trotti just as much. A delight
蒂莫西·威廉姆斯
法國
他的國籍是個問題，因爲他出生在英國的（英國人是不包括在“歐洲”犯罪小說範圍內的），但他在意大利生活過多年，後來搬到位於拉丁美洲的法國屬地瓜德羅普島。他擁有的是雙重國籍，而且他最近一本小說是用法文寫的。他筆下的人物Trotti與電視劇《Zen》裏的主人公很相似，儘管這五本的《代理警察總監Trotti》（Commissario Trotti series）系列在市面上不容易見，但是讀這些故事會帶給你的是一種欣喜。
