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.
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Helena Dahlgren
Författare till böckerna om 100 hemskaste, Orkidépojken och nu senast böckerna om Ödesryttarna: Jorvik kallar och Legenden vaknar. Jag är även verksam som översättare. Bor i Tyresö utanför Stockholm med tvillingdöttrar och katt.
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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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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.
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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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Carl-Johan Vallgren
He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the first novel to be translated into English. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in Stockholm.
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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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Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
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Katarina Wennstam
Katarina Wennstam är en av Sveriges mest lästa författare med en bakgrund som kriminaljournalist i SVT. Som frontfigur i den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter och lika villkor har Wennstam varit avgörande för flera viktiga lagändringar, bland annat den nya samtyckeslagen som trädde i kraft 2018. Sekelskiftesmorden innebär en vändning i Wennstams författarskap, utan att skifta fokus från kvinnofrågorna.
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Efter två decennier som journalist, författare och debattör i feministiska och kriminalpolitiska frågor har Katarina idag en hög trovärdighet och en stor plattform på sociala medier. Hennes böcker har älskats av läsare och litteraturkritiker och hennes första bok, Flickan och skulden, betraktas idag som en kultbok. -
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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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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Therese Bohman
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Camilla Grebe
Camilla Grebe is an entrepreneur and a former publisher and CEO. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Her sister is Åsa Träff.
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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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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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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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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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Malin Haawind
Malin Haawind romandebuterade 2021 med boken De kom från öar som tar sin början strax efter krigsslutet 1945. De kom från öar handlar om vuxenblivande och familj, om systerskap, arbete och längtan. Det är första delen i en romantrilogi som formar berättelsen om en familj i folkhemmet, från små kustsamhällen till nybyggda höghus i industristaden. Andra delen i serien, Och havet gav igen kommer i september 2022, och tredje delen, In mot stenig strand, hösten 2023.
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Jonathan Lundberg
Journalist och författare av Sverigevänner (2019), Från världskrig till nätkrig (2021), Cicada 3301 (2025).
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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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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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Bea Uusma
Mari Beatrice "Bea" Uusma, previously Uusma Schyffert, is a Swedish author, illustrator and medical doctor.
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Noel Streatfeild
Mary Noel Streatfeild, known as Noel Streatfeild, was an author best known and loved for her children's books, including Ballet Shoes and Circus Shoes. She also wrote romances under the pseudonym Susan Scarlett .
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She was born on Christmas Eve, 1895, the daughter of William Champion Streatfeild and Janet Venn and the second of six children to be born to the couple. Sister Ruth was the oldest, after Noel came Barbara, William ('Bill'), Joyce (who died of TB prior to her second birthday) and Richenda. Ruth and Noel attended Hastings and St. Leonard's Ladies' College in 1910. As an adult, she began theater work, and spent approximately 10 years in the theater.
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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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Christina Skoog Lindén
Mechanical engineer and horror author in northern Sweden.
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Elisabeth Åsbrink
Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink is a Swedish author and journalist.
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Jonas Karlsson
Sven Bert Jonas Karlsson is a Swedish actor and author. He won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in 2004 for the movie Details. He published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 2007.
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Annika Thor
Annika Thor grew up in a Jewish family in Gothenburg, Sweden, in the 1950s and 60s. She started work as a librarian and then went on to work as a film and television critic, and finally dedicated herself to writing books, plays, and screenplays for young people. She is one of Sweden’s best known authors for young people. Her books have been translated into many languages and have won many prizes.
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Linda Bondestam
Linda Bondestam is an illustrator based in Helsinki. A graduate of Kingston University in London, she has illustrated dozens of children's books that have been translated into more than ten languages. One of the most celebrated illustrators in the Nordic countries, Linda was awarded the Snöbollen for Swedish Picture Book of the Year in 2016 and the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize in 2017 for Djur som ingen sett utom vi (Animals that no one has seen except us). She was also nominated for the August Prize in 2020 for Mitt bottenliv (My life at the bottom) and is a six-time ALMA nominee, among various other awards.
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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 -
Martin Gelin
I'm the US Correspondent for Dagens Nyheter and the author of nine books on American politics and culture.
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I have written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The New Republic, LA Review of Books and Granta.
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Therese Bohman
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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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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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E.P. Uggla
Emmelie Pettersén Uggla (E.P. Uggla) is a Swedish dystopian author who writes both for adults and young adults. She is born in the Southern parts of Sweden but now lives outside of Stockholm. She is a lawyer but has also studied a great deal of psychology and history of ideas. She has also studied Creative writing at Harvard extension school in Boston.
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She debuted with the dystopian horror novel First Fall: Blue Dawn in 2017. The second book in the same series, First Fall: Red Dusk came in 2020.
In January 2021 her third book, What’s wrong with Eden, a dystopian young adult novel, was published by Bonnier Carlsen. The upcoming sequel, The Fall from Eden, will be published by Bonnier Carlsen in January 2023.
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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 -
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Birgitta Stenberg
Birgitta Stenberg was born in Stockholm in 1932. She was educated in Visby and finally in Paris. Stenberg spent a lot of time in southern Europe improving her language skills. She became a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. Stenberg was, during the early 1950s, a part of the literary assembly Metamorfosgruppen. She wrote the script for the film Raskenstam.
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During the Cold War in the 1950s, Stenberg was named secretary of the Swedish department of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and editor for Kulturkontakt which was founded by the CIA under the cover name of Ford Foundation.
Stenbergs first novel Fritt förfall was refused by Bonnier Group in 1952 due to the novels "lack of literary quality". According to the authour herself, the pu -
Suad Ali
Suad Ali, född 1990 i Somalia är statsvetare och har arbetat med migrationsfrågor på FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR, Utrikesdepartementet och Migrationsverket. Ali gjorde ett mycket uppskattat sommarprat 2018. Dina händer var fulla av liv är hennes romandebut.
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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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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. -
Jonas Eriksson
In three words: passionate, curious, creative.
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In my daytime I'm the Creative Director at one of the leading online gaming companies in the world and
my free time I like to spend with my family, Lenah and Aiden, and when there's time I like to write and play tennis. We live on the mediterranean island of Malta where the sun (almost) always shines.
Here you can find a couple of free short stories and more information about my books: http://jonaswrites.com/my-books/
And why not check out my official site and blog at http://www.jonaswrites.com
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Alva Dahl
Alva Dahl, född 1985, är litterär översättare från engelska och norska, samt doktorand i nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet. Hennes forskning handlar om interpunktionens roll i skönlitterär prosa. Som översättare har hon hyllats för sina tolkningar av bland andra David Foster Wallace och Zadie Smith.
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Dahl är även verksam som kulturskribent och redaktör – och var dessutom med och grundade Novellix 2011. Nu har hon skrivit novellen Allt har sin tid för förlaget. -
Suzanne Brøgger
Kærlighedens og erotikkens frontkæmper kunne man kalde den danske forfatter Suzanne Brøgger, der siden sin debut ”Fri os fra kærligheden” i 1973, har udfordret de moderne samlivsformer igennem litteraturen og deltagelse i den offentlige debat. Forfatterskabet, der bl.a. søger at bane menneskenes vej ind i erotikkens væsen, afsluttes nu ved forfatterens 70-års fødselsdag, der markeres med både collageværket ”SZ” og en omfattende biografi om Suzanne Brøgger som ung kvinde, ”Krukke”.
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Blå bog
Født: 18. november 1944 i København.
Uddannelse: Uafsluttede studier i russisk og fransk ved Københavns Universitet.
Debut: Fri os fra kærligheden. Gyldendal, 1973. Essays og noveller.
Litteraturpriser: PH-prisen, 1975. Weekend Avisens Litteraturpris, 1980. Pr