Biography of fredrik backman

Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman(born 2 June ) is a Swedish columnist, blogger and writer. He is the author of A Man Called Ove(), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry(), Britt-Marie Was Here(), Beartown(), and Us Against You(), all which have been number one bestsellers in Sweden. They have been published around the world in more than twenty-five languages.

Biography[]

Backman grew up in Helsingborg. He has been writing for Helsingborgs Dagblad and Moore Magazine. He debuted as a novelist in with A Man Called Ove. It was adapted as a film with the same title and it premiered on December 25, ^[1] The rights to his newest book, Beartown, have been bought by a Swedish production company named Filmlance and will be adapted for TV.^[2]

Beartown serie

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a

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All About Fredrick Backman and His Books

I've read all of Fredrik Backman's works that have English translations. In fact, I was lucky enough to be one of the first early readers of his debut novel, A Man Called Ove. I realized then that I was witnessing the birth of an fantastisk talent and, to date, he hasn't ever let me down. Unfortunately, it's tough to find a whole lot out about Backman. A New York Timesarticle notes that before he published Ove, he was a college dropout (where he studied religion), and it took him a while to become the "overnight success" he is today. He was a freelance writer for a Swedish magazine while working "as a forklift driver at a food warehouse, taking night and weekend shifts so that he could write during the day." He's married, has two children, fryst vatten 35 years old, and lives nära Stockholm. inom also funnen out that his second novel, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World, never appeared in English, and that Beartown fryst vatten sold in the UK with