Feroze the Forgotten Gandhi

Bertil Falk (b. 1933) is a respected Swedish newspaper and TV journalist, who spent more than ten years of his life in India, England and the United States. His love for writing started with a short science fiction story, published when he was twelve. He did a few radio programmes when he was fifteen and got a mystery novel published when he was twenty. Since then he has worked for different newspapers, primarily Kvallsposten (The Evening Post) and between 1987 and 1989 he was in the newsroom of the Swedish TV3 in London.

After retirement he has written about thirty-five books (fiction and non-fiction), and besides translating many mystery writers into Swedish he also translated and edited into English two anthologies of short stories by Swedish mystery writers. He was the editor of the cultural magazine OAST for a few years and contributed until recently with fiction as well as nonfiction to internet-zine Bewildering Stories.

He also filmed and produced video documentaries in Africa. For the past ten years and until recently, he has produced community radio programmes for Trelleborg Sjoormen Rotary Club, where he is a member.