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Fredrik Backman

Sweden (b.1981)

Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger and columnist. A Man Called Ove, his first novel, has sold more than 500,000 copies in its native country and has been published in more than twenty-five languages all over the world. His second novel, My Grandmother Sent Me to Tell You Shes Sorry, will be published by Atria in 2015.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

Beartown
1. Beartown (2017)
aka The Scandal
2. Us Against You (2018)

Novels

A Man Called Ove (2012)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2015)
Britt Marie Was Here (2016)

Omnibus

The Fredrik Backman Box Set (2017)

Collections

The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories (2018)

Novellas

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (2016)
The Deal of a Lifetime (2017)

Non fiction

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World (2019)

Fredrik Backman recommends

The Red Address Book (2019)
Sofia Lundberg
"Written with love, told with joy."

The Wolf and the Watchman (2019)
Niklas Natt och Dag
"This is a thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift to oneself."

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