BIO
Kuva: Markus Schulte
Jim Thompson is an American born in Kentucky in 1964. He has lived in Helsinki, Finland, since 1998. He has a Master’s degree in English Philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Swedish and Finnish.
As an author in Finland, Thompson is contracted to Johnny Kniga, an imprint of WSOY, Northern Europe’s largest publisher, for a series of political thrillers and crime stories. His first novel, Across the Green Line, appeared in 2008, in Finnish, under the title Jerusalemin veri. His second book, the crime novel Snow Angels (Lumienkelit), was released in spring 2009. Another thriller, The True Name of God (Jumalan nimeen), was published in March 2010.
Thompson has also achieved success in the international arena. Snow Angels, set in Finland, is the first novel in the Inspector Vaara series, and was published in America by the prestigious U.S. publisher, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, in January 2010. The second novel in the series, Dead of Winter, will follow in January 2011. The Inspector Vaara series has been or is scheduled to be published in six languages and more than a dozen countries. Thompson is represented by literary agent and publishing industry legend, Nat Sobel.
In the past, Thompson has worked as a bartender, bouncer, construction worker, photographer, rare coin dealer, soldier and wrestling announcer.
