4 Quotes & Sayings By Magnus Larsson

Magnus Larsson is a Swedish author, best known for his international best-selling trilogy about the fictional detective Harry Hole. His first novel in the series, The Redbreast, was awarded both the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Glass Key Award. He has received an award for his short stories from the Swedish Academy, and he has also been awarded with several prizes for individual books. He has written both fiction and nonfiction books, but is most renowned for his crime novels.

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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources. Magnus Larsson
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old. Magnus Larsson
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us. Magnus Larsson