Fredrik Backman
Nato: June 02, 1981 – Brännkyrka, Stockholm County, Sweden
Fredrik Backman is a Swedish novelist, columnist, and former blogger whose fiction explores community, loneliness, family, and everyday moral dilemmas. He is best known for A Man Called Ove, Beartown, and Anxious People. His books have become international bestsellers, been translated into more than 40 languages, and inspired major screen adaptations.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Fredrik Backman was born in Stockholm in 1981 and raised in Helsingborg, and he did not come to fiction through a conventional literary track. Before he became internationally known, he was widely read in Sweden as a columnist and blogger, and he has said that he thought of writing less as a career plan than as something he simply kept doing while holding ordinary jobs, including forklift work. Those early online years mattered: his columns and blog posts sharpened the dry, observational humor that would become his signature, and both his parenting material and some early elements of Ove first found readers there. The decisive turn came in 2012, when A Man Called Ove and the nonfiction volume Things My Son Needs to Know About the World were published after a period in which Ove had been rejected by multiple Swedish publishers. ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Backman))
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A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
A grumpy widower's life is transformed by boisterous new neighbors, exploring themes of love, loss, and unexpected connections.
The Winners
Fredrik Backman
Small-town hockey reveals humanity's price for victory and redemption.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman
A child's magical quest through grief, guided by grandmother's final letters.
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
A grumpy widower's life is transformed by boisterous new neighbors, exploring themes of love, loss, and unexpected connections.
The Winners
Fredrik Backman
Small-town hockey reveals humanity's price for victory and redemption.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman
A child's magical quest through grief, guided by grandmother's final letters.
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Voci della Community
"Backman is a master of writing delightful, insightful, soulful, character-driven narratives"
— USA Today
"Rich with Fredrik Backman's pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature"
— Shelf Awareness
"Backman can tickle the funny bone and tug on the heart strings when he needs to"
— The Independent
"Backman captures the messy essence of being human"
— The Washington Post
"Backman reveals each character’s many imperfections with tremendous empathy"
— BookPage
"As popular Swedish exports go, Backman is up there with ABBA and Stieg Larsson"
— The New York Times Book Review
"Fredrik Backman has a way of simply yet elegantly describing relationships"
— NPR
"Backman is a masterful writer, his characters familiar yet distinct, flawed yet heroic"
— Kirkus Reviews
"Fredrik Backman is known for his engrossing page-turners, and his latest novel follows suit"
— Woman's World