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Oct 28, 2016 · Fredrik Backman’s book is among his country’s most popular literary exports since “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” Here, he talks about rejection.
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Fredrik Backman. 52,645 likes · 55 talking about this. Writer of things. Walker of dog. (Agent and represention: Ariele.Fredman@unitedtalent.com)
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- The People of Beartown
- Almost A Fairytale
- The Power of Sports Stories
- Writing Out of Anxiety
- Closing A Trilogy
"I think first and foremost the residents of Beartown are resilient. It's very, very cold. It's one thing to live in the countryside. But it's a different thing entirely to live in the middle of the forest. You're kind of isolated. I liked telling a story about people who are so affected by nature. "What I'd like to explain about the people of Bear...
"The fable or or the fairy tale way of telling a story, that's the way I always tell stories. I don't think it's always intentional. I always fall back into that. I think it comes from the fact that I don't want to be an author. That was never my goal. I want to be a storyteller. "When I tell you something I want it to feel like I'm telling this st...
"The best sports stories are always mythical. It's always almost supernatural, unbelievable. All the great sports stories are about an unbelievable shot, or an impossible catch, or something happened at the end of the game and it changed everything. "That's why we watch sports — because we wait for those moments. That's the reason I fell in love wi...
"I had my breakdown in the winter of 2017. My career had started to go very well abroad. I had done two American tours and I was incredibly uncomfortable. I did interviews, or I went on tours, or I sat on stage and I felt like an actor. I felt like, well, I'm pretending to be the author that you want me to be. And I had an identity crisis and I was...
"[Writing The Winners] was scary because I've never written a series of that sort. I felt like, 'Can I find that tone of voice again? Can I find these characters and make them believable again? Can I step back into that world and make it real again? Or is it lost now. Can I do it without disappointing people?' That was my fear. "I don't want to do ...
Fredrik Backman (born 2 June 1981) is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist. He wrote A Man Called Ove (2012), Things My Son Needs to Know about the World (2012), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2013), Britt-Marie Was Here (2014), Beartown (2017), Us Against You (2018), Anxious People (2020), and The Winners (2022).
She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and Anxious People, as well as two novellas and one work of nonfiction.
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Aug 30, 2013 · My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman’s bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.
