Alexander Ahndoril

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|birth_name = Alexander Gustafson

|birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|1|20|df=y}}

|spouse = Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril

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|occupation = Novelist and playwright

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Alexander Ahndoril (born 20 January 1967 in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm), made his literary debut at the age of 22 with the love story Den äkta kvinnan (The True Woman, 1989). He has since authored nine novels, screenplays, radio scripts and stage plays.{{Cite web|url=http://enthusiast.bg/en/authors/74/|title=Lars Kepler|website=enthusiast.bg|access-date=2017-11-02|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021404/http://enthusiast.bg/en/authors/74/|url-status=dead}}

Among the works that have gathered most attention is Regissören (The Director, 2006) a novel about Ingmar Bergman. Regissören was nominated for several awards, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and has been translated into 11 languages.

Together with his wife Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, Alexander writes under the pseudonym Lars Kepler,{{Cite news|url=http://larskepler.com/lars-kepler/|title=Lars Kepler - Lars Kepler|work=Lars Kepler|access-date=2017-11-02|language=sv-SE}} author of the Joona Linna series.

In 2009, with his ninth novel Diplomaten, he was published, which is a fictional story about a Swedish diplomat's struggle to disarm Iraq in 2003. There is no doubt that Hans Blix is the main character in the parallel universe that the novel constitutes. Both foreword and afterwords state that the diplomat's private sphere is as fictitious as the public is truthful.[https://web.archive.org/web/20091004023816/http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/litteratur/artikel_3593577.svd Maktspel i Blixbelysning] . Svenska dagbladet, den 2 oktober 2009.[http://www2.unt.se:80/avd/1,,MC=0-TYPE=paperarticle,00.html?db=UNTW&search7_guid=UNT200910050117]. UNT, den 2 oktober 2009. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120201917/http://www2.unt.se/avd/1,,MC=0-TYPE=paperarticle,00.html?db=UNTW&search7_guid=UNT200910050117}}

Alexander Ahndoril, together with his wife Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, has written The Hypnotist, The Paganini Contract, The Fire Witness, The Sandman and The Stalker under the pseudonym Lars Kepler and has reached a worldwide audience, publishing in 40 different language areas.{{Cite web |title=Brief vande commandeur Michiel Andriesz Ruyter geschreven den 11: augusti [...] aende Staten Generael [...]. Verhalende het bloedigh ghevecht [...] den 8. ende den 10. augusti, 1653 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-8264_dutchpamphlets-kb0-kb08683 |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Dutch Pamphlets Online}}