Career
Born Stig Johansson, he started out by using the name Stieg Trenter as pseudonym but soon changed his name to it in real life. He debuted as a writer with his novel Ingen kan hejda döden ("Number One Can Stop Death"), published in 1943. Stieg Trenter is a crime writer
New editions of his books continue to be published.
His criminal story constructions has been called adequate by some experts and praised by others His investigating main character is Friberg, from whose perspective the story is told, and this character is said to have been based upon the press photographer K.W Gullers, Trenter"s friend.
His book series on Harry Friberg contains 23 books The books on Harry Friberg are his most famous but he also published other independent crime novels.
Stieg Trenter married the author Ulla Trenter in 1960.
Petri Liukkonen. "Stieg Trenter". Books and Writers (kirjastoscifi). Archived from the original on 4 July 2013.
Stieg Trenter at Albert Bonniers Förlag (in Swedish).
