Author Ruth Rendell is dead – NRK

– She was an outstanding psychologist who had the ability to write crime they believed in, says the Norwegian author Karin Fossum.

Rendell more than 60 novels during its 50-year career, and is one of the writers who have inspired Fossum most.

– Something genuine and down to earth

– There was something special about her, I must certainly say. I know that she also says that she read my books, so we had a mutual enthusiasm. I felt related to her, and there are not so many crime writers I feel kinship, says Fossum, who is also published in English.

Author Karin Fossum believe we have lost a great and elegant psychologist and writer on crime genre, when Ruth Rendell now gone.

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Both have been keen to write about ordinary people, and the Norwegian author think it was exactly this that created a bond between them.

– There is something genuine and down to earth and homely with her books, said Fossum, who believes there is great respect of being able to write as long as Rendell did. She should have been a writer until recently.

– Greater than Agatha Christie

Despite the mutual respect and that Fossum repeatedly visited England, so never met the two authors .

– Now I hope it will emerge more writing in the same tradition, says Fossum.

She thinks that Rendell, also known as Barbara Vine, is a far greater crime queen than Agatha Christie.

– Agatha Christie writes a lot about the British upper classes where they poison each other, and where there is a game to find out who is the killer. It is entertaining and smart, but it grabs you not in the same way, says Fossum.

The Norwegian author believes that Rendell instead had an ability to write about people who could be anyone.

– Want a salute

Moreover traded her books not much violence, blood and noise.

– I think it’s far more interesting with stories of good and well-intentioned people who suddenly commit a murder. About your neighbor does something like that it is far more serious and frightening, than when dealing with a psychopathic killer, Fossum says.

Randell most famous character is Inspector Wexford, who also became a successful TV series.

Pedro Almodóvar’s acclaimed film “Carne tremula ‘is also based on Rendell work” Live Flesh “, which in Norwegian is called” His own enemy. “

– I was supposed to desire a Norwegian publishing house will now grab the authorship her and give out two to three of her best books again, as a tribute to her, said Fossum.