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Fredrik Backman

出生: 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.

传记与作者历程

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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名言

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Ove is fifty-nine
-A Man Called Ove
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He drives a Saab
-A Man Called Ove
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This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots
-Anxious People
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We’re not in control
-Anxious People
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Changing that diaper was my Vietnam
-Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
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I googled like hell
-Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
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Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did
-Us Against You
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What the hell else do you need?
-Us Against You
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People we love will die
-Us Against You

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"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"

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