Kepler Lars

Lars Kepler is the literary pseudonym of the Swedish husband-and-wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril.

ALEXANDRA Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril was born in 1966 to a family of Swedish and Portuguese origin and grew up in Helsingborg on the southern coast of Sweden. In the early 1990s, Alexandra moved to Stockholm to become an actress, but then changed course and chose writing instead. In 2003, her debut novel Stjärneborg, about the life of the astronomer Tycho Brahe, was published and won the Katapult Prize. She later published the novels Birgitta och Katarina (2006), about the life of Saint Bridget of Sweden, and Master (2009), about the radical socialist August Palm. Alexandra was also a literary critic for the Swedish newspapers Göteborgs-Posten and Dagens Nyheter.

ALEXANDER Alexander Ahndoril was born in 1967 in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm. Alexander made his debut at the age of 22 with the romance novel Den äkta kvinnan. Since then, he has written nine novels, film scripts, radio plays, and stage plays. His best-known book is Regissören (2006), a novel about Ingmar Bergman. Regissören was nominated for several awards, including the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and has been translated into 11 languages.

The pseudonym “Lars Kepler” pays tribute to two people. The name Lars honors the crime bestseller author Stieg Larsson, while the surname Kepler comes from the German scientist Johannes Kepler, who made a number of discoveries in astronomy and other fields at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. When the first novel they wrote together, The Hypnotist, was published in 2009, the identity of the author behind the pseudonym “Lars Kepler” remained unknown, and it was assumed that it would stay that way. However, journalists did not agree. First, a number of writers were named, all of whom denied any involvement with