Presenting Author: Fredrik Backman

[Flora Burke]

Name of the author: Fredrik Backman
Main genre: Fantasy: Fiction, satire
Main audience: Young adult and upwards

Main books/ most noted for: A Man called Ove, Beartown, Britt-Marie was here

Blurb about author: Fredrik Backman is a Swedish columnist, blogger and author. His debut novel, A Man called Ove, was published in 2012 to much acclaim. In 2015, it was adapted and released as a dark comedy. His subsequent books were all nominated for various accolades. His novel Beartown, which revolves around an amateur hockey team that might just rescue an entire town from scandal, will be adapted for the small screen. The second book in this series, Us Against You, was published in 2018.

This author has drawn me back in time after time. He writes about the outcasts of society - those people that have been pushed aside because they aggravate others. Backman has a gift for telling their stories with tenderness and a dash of dark humour, but without glossing over the events that lead to them being marginalised in the first place.