Mats Strandberg
Mats Strandberg is an award-winning novelist and journalist. He is a regular columnist for Sweden's biggest evening newspaper, has been named Columnist of the Year by Sweden's Newspapers and Magazines organization, and had published three previous novels, with rights sold in numerous countries.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling (1948 – 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic, statistician, and public speaker.
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He was the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software. He held presentations around the world, including several TED Talks in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues. -
Mårten Melin
Mårten Melin debuterade 2003 och har sedan dess gett ut över sextio barn- och ungdomsböcker. Förutom att skriva böcker gör Mårten författarbesök i skolan och är lärare på skrivarkurser för barn och ungdomar. Han är utbildad bibliotekarie och har gått Skrivarlinjen och Skrivpedagogutbildningen på Skurups folkhögskola.
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Mårten menar att lättlästa böcker är en demokratifråga och att alla har rätt till upplevelsen som en bra bok kan ge. Han har också skrivit lättlästa böcker för vuxna, utgivna på Vilja förlag. -
William Älgebrink
William Älgebrink, född 1997 och bosatt i Jokkmokk, är kommunikatör och filmskapare. Han har bland annat läst den skönlitterära projektkursen vid Jakobsbergs författarskola och manusutbildningen Story Masterclass på Gotland. Han har fått Bok & Bild Luleås novellpris år 2020 med Jag blöder som vilken annan son som helst och skrivit och regisserat kortfilmen Så låt sorgen komma som hade premiär 2023. Huset vid Pärlälvens slut är hans debutroman.
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Jonathan Lundberg
Journalist och författare av Sverigevänner (2019), Från världskrig till nätkrig (2021), Cicada 3301 (2025).
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Dave Pelzer
An author best known for his 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called It.
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At the age of 12, Dave was removed from an abusive home and placed in a series of foster homes. In 1979, he joined the Air Force and later became an author of memoirs and self-improvement books.
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Åsa Larsson
Åsa Larsson is a Swedish crime-writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels, Rebecka Martinsson.
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Sara Kadefors
Sara Kadefors writes for both teens and adults. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jon Jordås
Jon Jordås är dokumentärchef på produktionsbolaget Filt. Han har bevakat ett stort antal olika kriminalfall som journalist och bland annat jobbat med prisbelönta P3 Dokumentär om Palmeutredningen inifrån.
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Kathleen Snow
Kathleen Snow is a member of the Montana Writers Guild and Outdoor Writers Association of America. Her nonfiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Women in Natural Resources, and other periodicals. Her fiction includes the new mystery, Searching for Bear Eyes, from the University of Montana Press.
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Dick Harrison
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Sofia Nordin
Sofia Nordin (born 1974) is a Swedish author and translator, best known for her children's and young adult books.
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John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist (John Erik Ajvide Lindqvist) is a Swedish author who grew up in Blackeberg, the setting for Let the Right One In . Wanting to become something awful and fantastic, he first became a conjurer, and then was a stand-up comedian for twelve years. He has also written for Swedish television.
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His Let the Right One In was a bestseller in Sweden and was named Best Novel in Translation 2005 in Norway. He also is the author of Handling the Undead and Harbor .
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Joan Lindsay
Joan Lindsay, Lady Lindsay was an Australian author, best known for her "ambiguous and intriguing" novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Mats Jonsson
Mats Jonsson is a Swedish comic creator. Debuting as a teenager in the Swedish fanzine society, Jonsson later became one of the prime Swedish representants for the autobiographical comic genre, inspired by American and Canadian comic creators such as Harvey Pekar, Seth, and Joe Matt.
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Mats Jonsson has been published in several Swedish newspapers and magazines. Many of his works have been collected in albums.
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Matilda Ruta
Matilda Ruta is a freelance illustrator, author, designer and artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. With over ten years’ experience, she has worked for a wide range of print and design clients on web, childrens books, magazine design, murals, advertising campaigns and more.
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Pär Lagerkvist
Lagerkvist was born in 1891 in southern Sweden. In 1910 he went to Uppsala as a student and in 1913 he left for Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Pablo Picasso. He studied Middle Age Art, as well as Indian and Chinese literature, to prepare himself for becoming a poet. His first collection of poetry was published in 1916. In 1940 Lagerkvist was chosen as one of the "aderton" (the eighteen) of the Swedish Academy.
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Lagerkvist wrote poetry, novels, plays, short stories and essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind." -
Pam Smy
Pam Smy studied Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, part of Anglia Ruskin University, where she now lectures part-time. Pam has illustrated books by Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles), Julia Donaldson (Follow the Swallow) and Kathy Henderson (Hush, Baby, Hush!), among others. She lives in Cambridge.
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Therese Bohman
Therese Bohman is an editor of the magazine Axess and a columnist for Expressen and Tidningen Vi, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. She lives in Sweden.
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Nora Khalil
Nora Khalil (f. 1997) är en svensk författare.
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Khalil är uppvuxen i Alby i Botkyrka kommun. Hon är utbildad lärare och avlade examen från lärarprogrammet 2020. År 2022 romandebuterade hon med ungdomsboken Yani. Boken nominerades till Augustpriset i kategorin barn- och ungdomsböcker samma år, belönades med Hjärtans fröjd-priset för Sveriges bästa ungdomsroman 2022, nominerades till debutantpriset Slangbellan samt till Nils Holgersson-plaketten för 2022 års bästa barn- och ungdomsbok. I maj 2023 kom uppföljaren Abow.
Khalil har varit finalist i Ortens bästa poet samt tilldelats Tensta konsthalls textpris.
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Camilla Sten
Camilla Sten is a writer, and her publisher made the mistake of letting her set this author page up by herself. She is best known for her internationally bestselling novel "The Lost Village", which has sold to 19 countries, and has written books ranging from YA fantasy to contemporary thrillers.
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Camilla lives in Sweden with her American boyfriend and two fluffy, evil cats. She is quite enjoying talking about herself in the third person, and might keep it going after she's submitted this author bio. -
Aase Berg
Poet, fiction writer, critic, translator, and one of the founding members of the Stockholm Surrealist Group.
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Natalie Normann
Natalie Normann grew up in a shipping town on the west-coast of Norway and always wanted to be a writer. Actually, she wanted to smoke cigars and drink whiskey like Hemingway but settled for chocolate and the occasional glass of Baileys.
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Her writing journey started with short stories in women’s magazines until her first book was published in 1995.
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Sara Bergmark Elfgren
Sara Bergmark Elfgren (a.k.a. Sara B. Elfgren) is an award-winning Swedish writer, screenwriter and playwright. She made her debut with the YA novel The Circle (2011), which she co-wrote with Mats Strandberg. The Circle was the first part in the Engelsfors trilogy, and it has been translated into twenty-five languages.
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Since her debut, Elfgren has written critically acclaimed novels, children's books, graphic novels, audio dramas, plays, screenplays and TV scripts.
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Elisabeth Åsbrink
Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink is a Swedish author and journalist.
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Maria Gripe
Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter (25 July 1923, Vaxholm, Uppland – 5 April 2007, Rönninge), was a Swedish author of books for children and young people, often written in a magical and mystical tone. In 1946 she married the artist Harald Gripe, who created cover illustrations for most of her books. His illustration career, in fact, began in connection with his wife's debut as author of I vår lilla stad ("In our little town"). Maria Gripe's first major success was Josephine (1961), the first of a series of novels that later included Hugo and Josephine and Hugo. During most of her adult life Maria Gripe lived in Nyköping, where an adaptation of her book Agnes Cecilia was filmed. After a long period of dementia Maria Gripe died at 83 in a nu
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Andrev Walden
Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin romandebut Jävla karlar, som också blev det årets bäst säljande svenska roman.
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Camilla Sten
Camilla Sten is a writer, and her publisher made the mistake of letting her set this author page up by herself. She is best known for her internationally bestselling novel "The Lost Village", which has sold to 19 countries, and has written books ranging from YA fantasy to contemporary thrillers.
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Camilla lives in Sweden with her American boyfriend and two fluffy, evil cats. She is quite enjoying talking about herself in the third person, and might keep it going after she's submitted this author bio. -
Elin Persson
Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.
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Jessica Schiefauer
Jessica Schiefauer är född 1978 och uppvuxen i Kungälv utanför Göteborg. Hon har gått skrivarutbildningar på Fridhems folkhögskola, Bona folkhögskola och Nordiska folkhögskolan. Hon har även studerat svenska, engelska och litteraturvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet och har en pedagogisk examen i språk och kreativt skrivande.Vid sidan om författarskapet arbetar Jessica med kurser i språk och skrivande.
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Sara Bergmark Elfgren
Sara Bergmark Elfgren (a.k.a. Sara B. Elfgren) is an award-winning Swedish writer, screenwriter and playwright. She made her debut with the YA novel The Circle (2011), which she co-wrote with Mats Strandberg. The Circle was the first part in the Engelsfors trilogy, and it has been translated into twenty-five languages.
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Since her debut, Elfgren has written critically acclaimed novels, children's books, graphic novels, audio dramas, plays, screenplays and TV scripts.
She was born in Stockholm and still lives there. She has a degree in Film Studies. She enjoys reading, watching old movies, listening to music, playing video games and going for long walks. She is currently working on an opera libretto, a new novel and a children's book. -
Alex Schulman
Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.
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Sofia Nordin
Sofia Nordin (born 1974) is a Swedish author and translator, best known for her children's and young adult books.
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John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist (John Erik Ajvide Lindqvist) is a Swedish author who grew up in Blackeberg, the setting for Let the Right One In . Wanting to become something awful and fantastic, he first became a conjurer, and then was a stand-up comedian for twelve years. He has also written for Swedish television.
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His Let the Right One In was a bestseller in Sweden and was named Best Novel in Translation 2005 in Norway. He also is the author of Handling the Undead and Harbor .
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Magnus Uggla
Per Allan Magnus Claësson Uggla (born 18 June 1954) is a Swedish artist, composer, actor, and occasional radio host. He is known for his satirical lyrics.
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Johan Rundberg
Johan Rundberg föddes 1973 i Knislinge i Skåne, men bosatte sig som vuxen i Stockholm. Han upptäckte glädjen i att skriva och läsa under tidiga skolår, och var en flitig biblioteksbesökare. Så småningom läste han litteraturvetenskap och tv-produktion på universitetet. Det ledde honom till jobb på SVT och MTG. Från sin utbildningstid hade han även erfarenhet av att jobba med bildsatta manus. Därifrån hämtade han inspiration till att också prova att göra bilderböcker.
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Lina Wolff
Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the prestigious Vi magazine literature prize, given to writers to watch out for, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives with her family in Sweden.
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Malin Lindroth
Malin Lindroth writes poetry, short stories, and plays. She lives on the west coast of Sweden.
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Patrik Svensson
Lars Patrik Svensson (born 1972) is a Swedish journalist and author. Svensson works in the cultural editorial department of Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad.
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In the summer of 2019, he made his debut as an author with the book Ålevangeliet, which is partly a non-fiction book about the eel as a species and about the eel's cultural history, and partly an autobiographical story about the author and his father. Rights to publish the book have been purchased in 2019 for publication in 33 other languages. The book received the August Prize for Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019. -
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Elin Persson
Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.
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Lovisa Wistrand
A Swedish author who writes romance in all its forms, especially hot, dark, and adventurous romantasy. Rights sold to the US, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and all other countries where these languages are spoken.
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LOVISA WISTRAND was born in Vallentuna in 1991 and now lives in Uppsala with her husband, cat, and two sons. She is an educated art director/graphic designer from Forsbergs skola, but now works as a full-time author. Lovisa has taken several writing courses, including those at Skrivarakademin. Nowadays, she sometimes teaches her own courses in fantasy, world-building, and romance, gives lectures at libraries, and conducts digital workshops.
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Sven Olov Karlsson
Karl Sven Olov Karlsson, född 30 juli 1971 i Norberg i Västmanland, är en svensk författare och journalist.
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Debuten skedde med Italienaren 2003, en delvis självbiografisk roman som från början skrevs för att bearbeta känslorna efter faderns sjukdom och död. Angående det självbiografiska innehållet sade dock Sven Olov Karlsson att "Jag öste på med sanningar och lögner och våldsamma överdrifter och rent hittepå, långt bortom vad som kan kallas självbiografiskt." Boken sålde bra och låg på tionde plats på Svensk bokhandels försäljningslista för april 2003.
År 2008 utkom hans andra roman, Amerikahuset. I pocketutgåvan av samma bok, som utgavs 2009, ingick även novellen En tur på sjön. 2008 utkom även den fotoillustrerade reportageboken Svenska öd -
Anna Sivenius Rattigan
Anna Sivenius Rattigan was born in 1975 in Malmö. Today, she lives in the countryside outside Löberöd in the region of Skåne together with her family.
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Anna is trained as a psychologist and works as a consultant, with a focus on leadership and group development. 'Odödlig jord' was her debut novel. -
Chris McKinney
Chris McKinney is a Korean, Japanese, Scottish American writer born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the author of the Water City trilogy. Book one was named a Best Mystery of 2021 by Publisher's Weekly and a Best Speculative Mystery of 2021 by CrimeReads. All three books received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, and Booklist called book three a "satisfying conclusion to a magnificent trilogy (that) offers a real treat for sf fans." In 2024, Honolulu Magazine named McKinney "Author of the Year" for his Water City trilogy.
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Chris has written six other novels: The Tattoo, The Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row, Mililani Mauka, Boi No Good, and Yakudoshi: Age of Calamity.
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Johanna Holmström
Johanna Holmström, född 1981, är uppvuxen i Sibbo men bor numera i Helsingfors. Hon debuterade år 2003 med novellsamlingen Inlåst och andra noveller som nominerades till Sveriges Radios novellpris. Med den tredje samlingen Camera Obscura erhöll hon bland annat Svenska Dagbladets litteraturpris. Hennes roman Asfaltsänglar har översatts till åtta språk. Hon har hyllats som en författare som går direkt på smärtpunkterna i mänskliga relationer och i det komplicerade i att existera som människa.
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Fanny Klang
Fanny Klang är född 1998 och har sedan 2021 arbetat på kriminalvårdsanstalter inom alla tre säkerhetsklasser på olika platser i landet, samt ett säkerhetshäkte. Idag bor hon i Solna och studerar juristprogrammet på Stockholms universitet. Sluten anstalt är hennes debutroman.
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”När jag för första gången klev in bakom anstaltsgrindarna var jag idealistisk och humanistisk. Sedan: verkligheten. Personalomsättningen skyhög, platsbristen skriande, tystnadskulturen allomfattande. Total dissonans mellan reklamkampanjernas vackra ord och denna auktoritära, desillusionerade Sveriges tredje största myndighet. Efter inlåsning promenerar jag till hållplatsen, men mina tankar är kvar på anstalten. Det jag tänker är att verksamheten går helt emot myndighet -
Rene Karabash
See also: Рене Карабаш
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Rene Karabash (b. Irena Ivanova, 1989) is a writer, screenwriter, playwright and actress. She was the recipient of several Best Actress awards for her leading role in the film Godless, including the Silver Leopard at Locarno and the Bronze Horse at Stockholm. Her debut novel, She Who Remains, won the prestigious Elias Canetti award for literature, and was shortlisted for every possible national prize. In December 2023, the novel’s French translation by Marie-Vrinat Nikolov was awarded the French PEN award. For a translated excerpt of the novel in English, Izidora Angel was awarded the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation in 2023. A movie based on the book, adapted for the big screen by the author, and a co-production betwee -
Quynh Tran
QUYNH TRAN (b. 1989) grew up in Jakobstad in Finnish Ostrobothnia and now resides in Malmö. A graduate of the acclaimed Biskops Arnö Writing School, Tran’s debut novel Shade and Breeze was awarded the prestigious Runeberg Prize, the Svenska Yle’s Literature Prize, and the Borås Tidning’s Debutant Prize.
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Marion Brunet
Marion Brunet, born in 1976, is a well known Young Adult author in France. Her YA novels have received over 30 prizes, including the 2017 UNICEF Prize for Youth Literature. Marion has previously worked as a special needs educator and now writes her fiction in Marseille.
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Hans Gunnarsson
Hans Gunnarsson (1966) was born and brought up in Finspång but now lives in Stockholm. Since the short story collection Bakom glas (Behind Glass) which was published in 1996 and won the Swedish Catapult Prize for Best Debut, Hans Gunnarsson has written a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed short story collections and novels. Hans Gunnarsson is also one of Sweden’s most established screenwriters
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Anja Gatu
Anja Gatu har lång erfarenhet som sportjournalist och har arbetat bland annat för Sydsvenskan i Malmö. Idag är hon programutvecklingschef på P4 Malmöhus. Anja har nu skrivit tre böcker om Kosovare “Kosse” Asllani, två om Therese Sjögran och 2017 kom boken om Marta ut. Nu har hon även skrivit om bandy i boken om Linnéa Larsson som kom ut 2019.
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Steve Sheppard
Steve had his first book, A Very Important Teapot, published (by Claret Press) in 2019. He was 66 at the time. One of his many regrets is that it didn't happen when he was 26 but he spent 40 years not realising that the two keys to writing a successful novel are (a) "making it up as you go along" and (b) becoming a celebrity first, as that makes it a doddle selling it once written.
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He has now "made up" two more books, Bored to Death in the Baltics and (published April 2024) Poor Table Manners. Together they make up the Dawson & Lucy Series.
Now if you're thinking that these titles (and the covers) suggest that the books are not entirely serious, you'd be correct. With A Very Important Teapot, Steve discovered that he'd inadvertently invented -
Malin Stehn
Name: Malin Stehn
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Born: 1969 in Boden (in the very north of Sweden)
Grew up: in Katrineholm (close to Stockholm)
I live: in an old house outside Malmö (in the very south of Sweden)
Family: married to Micke, a son and a daughter
Pets: Two cats. Peps, born 2020 and Bisou, born 2022
What I do : I am a full time author. My first book was published in 2006 and since then I have written more than 40 books for young readers. My first novel for adult readers, the psychological thriller Happy New Year , was published in 2021 and sold to 19 countries. It was followed by Happily Ever After (2023) and Hip Hip Hooray (2025).
Education: Master of Arts in literary studies at the University of Lund
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Niklas Natt och Dag
Niklas Natt och Dag (“Night and Day”) debuted as an author with the historical literary novel 1793. Natt och Dag himself has an undeniable connection to Swedish history, being a member of the oldest surviving noble family in Sweden. When he isn’t writing or reading, Natt och Dag enjoys playing the guitar, mandolin, violin, or the Japanese bamboo flute, shakuhachi.
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Oskar Kroon
Oskar Kroon (1980) är före detta journalist som skolade om sig till bagare. Nu bakar han på deltid för att hinna med sin familj och att skriva.
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Lydia Sandgren
Lydia Sandgren, född 8 januari 1987, är en svensk författare. Hon har uppmärksammats för att år 2020 ha vunnit Augustpriset.
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Lydia Sandgren (b. 1987) is the eldest of seven siblings brought up in the west of Sweden. She has studied music, philosophy, and is a practising psychologist today, living in Göteborg. Samlade verk (Collected Works) is her debut. -
Malin Persson Giolito
Malin Persson Giolito was born in Stockholm in 1969, and grew up in Djursholm. She has worked as a lawyer for the biggest law firm in the Nordic region and as an official for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.
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Persson Giolito has published three previous novels. Her latest novel, Quicksand (Störst av allt), was published by Wahlström & Widstrand in June 2016 and has been sold to 24 countries and was awarded the Best Crime Novel of the Year Award 2016, Sweden’s official suspense literature award, which is given by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy.
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Lars Mæhle
Lars Mæhle (født 1971 på Sunndalsøra) er en norsk forfatter og barnebokforfatter. Han har hovedfagseksamen i litteratur og arbeider som forlagsredaktør. Han debuterte med boka Keeperen til Tunisia i 2002.
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Frans G. Bengtsson
Frans G. Bengtsson (1894–1954) was born and raised in the southern Swedish province of Skåne, the son of an estate manager. His early writings, including a doctoral thesis on Geoffrey Chaucer and two volumes of poetry written in what were considered antiquated verse forms, revealed a career-long interest in historical literary modes and themes. Bengtsson was a prolific translator (of Paradise Lost, The Song of Roland, and Walden), essayist (he published five collections of his writings, mostly on literary and military topics), and biographer (his two-volume biography of Charles XII (Karl XII:s levnad) won the Swedish Academy’s annual prize in 1938). In 1941 he published Röde Orm: Sjöfarare i västerled (Red Orm at Home and on the Western Way
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Siri Pettersen
Siri was born in 1971, under the northern lights of Norway, with a severely overactive imagination. It survived countless attacks from the outside world, rendering her an expert escapist, frolicking in a wide range of media: Design, web, comics, illustration, animation and text. Anything for a good story. In 2002 she won a national comic contest with "Anticlimax", the comic strip that made her "Newcomer of the year" in the Norwegian Sproing Awards. Siri has worked as an Art Director for many years, but she is now writing full time, devoted to her fantastical worlds.
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Bali Rai
Bali Rai was born in 1971 and grew up in Leicester. As a child, Bali wanted to be a footballer or to write stories. Always an avid reader, he hails Sue Townsend, Douglas Adams and Robert Swindells as his writing heroes. Bali grew up reading Dr Seuss and Meg and Mog and his first book purchase was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. He realised he wasn't good enough to play for Liverpool F.C. and after gaining a politics degree in London he returned to his home city and combined a variety of jobs in pubs and clubs with completing his first novel. Bali set about writing a story he had been thinking about for many years. He wanted to write accessible material for children of all ages and backgrounds and realising there were no British Asian
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Abigail Tarttelin
Abigail Tarttelin is an award-winning author, screenwriter, actress, and musician. As a writer, she is best known for Golden Boy, “a grippingly innovative” coming-of-age novel with a “radical non-binary, pro-intersex message” (Autostraddle). Golden Boy is the winner of an Alex Award from the American Library Association, a LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist for Best LGBT Debut, a Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 2013, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, and is published in eight languages.
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Also a screenwriter, Abigail has served as a juror for the British Independent Film Awards, and is currently working on the Duck Soup/BBC Films adaptation of Golden Boy. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, Phoenix, Oh -
Helena Waris
Helena Waris (s. 1970) vietti lapsuutensa Pohjois-Karjalassa, ja muutti 13-vuotiaana Kiteeltä Mikkeliin, jossa kirjoitti ylioppilaaksi 1990. Esikoisromaani oli jo tuolloin työn alla, mutta tarvittiin puutarhurin opinnot ja pätkätyöt niin yrttitarhan opaskierrosten vetäjänä kuin hautaustoimiston apulaisenakin, sekä lyhyt ura käsityöläisyrittäjänä ja pidempi kotiäitiys ennen kuin aika oli kypsä Uniin piirretylle polulle.
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Suurimmat sysäykset kirjan toteutumiselle ovat jäljitettävissä Oriveden Opistoon, Mikkelin Kirjoittajiin ja MTV3:n Suureen Seikkailuun. Waris asuu Ristiinassa 100-vuotiaassa puutalossa. Uusperheeseen kuuluu 4-7 lasta ja 2 koiraa. Hänen sydäntään lähellä ovat maatiaiskasvit, kansanperinne, remontointi, rock-musiikki ja leivonna -
Moa Martinson
Helga Maria Swarts, known as Moa Martinson, (2 November 1890, Vårdnäs - 5 August 1964) was a Swedish author.
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Helga's ambitions as a writer was to change the society and with her authorship portray the conditions of the working-class but also the personal development of women. In her work she wrote about: motherhood, love, poverty, politic, religion, urbanization and the hard living conditions of the working class woman. -
Johannes Klenell
Johannes Klenell (f. 1979) är förläggare på Galago, serieförlaget som de senaste tio åren varit ett drivhus för några av vår tids bästa samhällskritiker. Han skriver för bland annat Aftonbladet Kultur och Värmlands Folkblad.
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Kerstin Lundberg Hahn
Kerstin Lundberg Hahn, född 22 april 1962, är en svensk barn- och ungdomsförfattare. Hon har bland annat producerat en serie pusseldeckare om Kajsa och Johan samt en annan serie om vardagsäventyren för tre klasskamrater (första boken var 2008 års Bakom masken). Båda bokserierna innehåller illustrationer av Jens Ahlbom.
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Rebecca Donner
I was born in Canada and during childhood lived in a number of different places — Japan, Michigan, Virginia, and California. My love of books has remained the one constant in my life.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is my third book, a fusion of biography, WWII espionage thriller, and scholarly detective story. I interweave letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into an epic story about an American woman who was a leader in Berlin's underground resistance to Hitler. -
Oskar Källner
Oskar Källner uppslukades av den fantastiska litteraturen redan som 9-åring då han närmast maniskt läste Jules Verne. Därefter slukades allt som gick att komma över av Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke och C. J. Cherryh.
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Oskar är lika fascinerad av folksagor och myter som av astrofysik. I sitt författande blandar han ofta spekulativa idéer med snabb aktion och existentiella frågor.
Han har givit ut flera fantasyromaner, en hästscience fiction-bok, två bilderböcker för barn och ett stort antal noveller. Sina noveller har han också vunnit flera priser för. Han är publicerad på flera språk, senast i det amerikanska SF-magasinet Future SF. Utöver detta är han engagerad i SF-Sverige och deltar regelbundet i skrivarpodden Fantastis -
Ebba Witt-Brattström
Ebba Witt-Brattström (born 1953) is a Swedish scholar in comparative literature. She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm, and a well-known feminist. In the 1970s she was a member of the feminist organisation Grupp 8, and in 2005 she was one of the founders of the feminist political organisation and party Feministiskt Initiativ, although she later distanced herself from the organisation and criticized its alleged strong left-wing tendencies.
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Emma Ångström
Emma Ångström is an author and architect. She has a Master’s degree in architecture from the Royal Technical University in Stockholm and from Parsons in New York. Besides her writing she currently works as head of communications at an architectural firm in Stockholm, Sweden.
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She was born in 1982 in Västerås, Sweden, and started her writing career as a journalist at the age of 17. Since then, she has also worked as a lighting designer, and written non-fiction books about lighting design and architecture. -
Jenny Jägerfeld
Jenny Jägerfeld made her literary debut in 2006 with a hole in my head. Her second novel, Me on the Floor, Bleeding, was in 2010 rewarded with The August Prize for best youth novel in Sweden. It’s her first novel translated to English.
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Originally a child psychologist, she now runs her own psychologist practice in Stockholm. She also works for the Swedish national radio, in a radio show about psychological matters. -
Lisa Bjärbo
Lisa Bjärbo, född 12 maj 1980 utanför Växjö, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör.
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Hon debuterade 2006 med barnboken Stora syndboken (medförfattare Elin Lindell) på förlaget Natur och Kultur, som följdes upp 2007 med Pinsamt! på samma förlag. Hennes ungdomsromandebut Det är så logiskt, alla fattar utom du släpptes av Rabén & Sjögren april 2010. Hon har tidigare arbetat som redaktör för Barnens Bokklubbs medlemstidningar och Kamratposten.
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Elin Olausson
Elin Olausson skriver fantastik, skräck och historiska romaner på svenska och engelska. Hon bor på den värmländska landsbygden med skogen utanför fönstret, och har alltid minst en bok på nattduksbordet. Hon har gett ut skräckromanen Silver, novellsamlingarna Shadow Paths, Growth och Slottet Synd samt ett trettiotal fristående noveller, och är aktuell med serierna Bruket (Ravenheart förlag) och Dalens döttrar (Polaris).
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Elin Olausson is a fan of the weird and the unsettling. She is the author of the short story collections Growth and Shadow Paths and several books in Swedish, and has had stories featured in Chiral Mad 5, Gamut, Weird Horror, and many other publications.
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Nina Gildert
Nina Gildert kommer från Vetlanda där hon arbetar som vårdadministratör. Ända sedan högstadiet har hon haft en fascination för skräckgenren, detta genom att hon tidigt upptäckte Stephen Kings böcker. Ett annat stort intresse för Nina är folktro och true crime-poddar. I mars 2020 fick hon med novellen Sömnparalys i Creepypodden och kom därefter igång med sitt skrivande på allvar vilket 2024 resulterade i boken 7 skräcknoveller innehållande sju stycken små creepypastor.
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Sara Engström
Sara Engström is an award-winning Swedish writer. She blends the well-known with the mystical, adjusts reality a bit and examines the result. She is interested in human ambiguity and her characters are filled to the brim with both flaws and ideals.
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Her latest book, Blodlunden, is a descent into dark secrets set in an 18th-century-inspired world. The ruler of the realm grafts beating hearts into ancient trees in order to control the people they once belonged to. And that’s not even the worst of it. -
Sara Ohlsson
Sara Ohlsson är född 1977 på Öland och bor nu i Stockholm. Hon är frilansande journalist och webbstrateg, och gillar att köra bil, skriva listor och bygga luftslott. Jag är tyvärr död och kan inte komma till skolan idag är hennes debutbok.
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Ann Törnkvist
Ann Törnkvist är en erfaren medarbetare på Sveriges Radio och arbetar idag som kriminalreporter på Ekot. Hon har tidigare frilansat för BBC, Al Jazeera och Studio Ett.
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Ellen Ekman
Ellen Inger Maria Karnstedt Ekman, född 20 februari 1986, är en svensk illustratör och serieskapare. Hennes serie Lilla Berlin publiceras sedan 2013 dagligen i tidningen Metro.
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Ellen Ekman växte upp i Stockholm, där hon gick förberedande konstskolor och påbörjade en högskoleutbildning i konstvetenskap. År 2011 avbröt hon dessa studier och flyttade till Malmö för studier på Serietecknarskolan.
Lilla Berlin valdes av Sydsvenska Dagbladet till gästserie 2011, en utmärkelse som tidningen ger till tre elever på Seriecenter årligen. Den gick då under namnet Möllan Deluxe. I januari 2013 började den gå som daglig serie i Metro, och serien publiceras också i Rocky Magasin. Kolik förlag gav januari 2014 ut en första samlingsbok med serien. Den är rita -
Kristian Lundberg
Kristian Lundberg was a Swedish author and journalist, who wrote and published over 40 novels and collections of poetry. His first title as an author "Genom september" (Through September) was published in 1991. His novel "Och allt ska vara kärlek" (And everything should be love) was awarded with the Swedish Radio Novel Prize, and before that he was the recipient of several awards such as the Ivar Lo Prize and the Aniara Award.
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The poetry book Job was nominated for the August Prize in 2005. In 2013 he was awarded with the Signe Ekblad Eld-prize for his authorship and in 2014 he recieved the Lars Ahlin-Award. -
Maria Lang
Dagmar Lange was a Swedish author of crime fiction under the pen name Maria Lang. She was one of the first detective novelists in the Swedish language, and her books helped make the genre popular in Sweden. Her first novel, "Mördaren ljuger inte ensam," was published in 1949 and caused some controversy because two of the main characters lived in a homosexual relationship. The book was given a positive review by Barbro Alving in Dagens Nyheter.
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Lange wrote more than 40 detective novels, as well as crime fiction for young adults. Most of her books are set in the fictional Swedish town Skoga, which is based on Lange's home town Nora. She was one of the original 13 members of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy when it was founded in 1971.
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Christin Ljungqvist
Christin Ljungqvist är en svensk författare känd för sin stämningsfulla och genreöverskridande prosa som ofta rör sig i gränslandet mellan det övernaturliga, psykologiska och djupt mänskliga. Hon debuterade 2012 med Kaninhjärta, en ung vuxen-roman som hyllades för sitt poetiska språk och sina suggestiva teman.
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Sedan dess har hon gett ut flera kritikerrosade romaner för både barn och unga, där fantastik och övernaturlighet flätas samman med socialrealism och ett starkt bildspråk. Hennes verk kretsar kring starka kvinnliga karaktärer, komplexa relationer och frågor om identitet, tro och förlust.
Ljungqvist är född och uppvuxen på västkusten, har studerat skrivande och även arbetat i bokhandeln. Förutom romaner skriver hon kortromaner/lättläst,