Author
Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman is the Swedish novelist behind A Man Called Ove (2012), the Beartown trilogy (2016-2022), Anxious People (2019), and the My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2013) novel. Backman is the canonical contemporary Swedish translated-fiction writer and Ove was the most-translated Swedish novel of the 2010s.
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Years active
2012-2020
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Our reviews of Fredrik Backman's work
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 2020 review. A failed bank robber takes a Stockholm apartment-viewing hostage. Backman's structurally most ambitious novel and the basis for the Netflix limited series.
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 2012 review. A fifty-nine-year-old Swedish curmudgeon plans his suicide until a young family moves in across the courtyard. Backman's debut.
Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
Beartown by Fredrik Backman 2017 review. A small Swedish forest town stakes its identity on its junior hockey team. An assault by the star player splits the town. Backman's most ambitious novel and the first of the Beartown trilogy.
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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 2020 review. A failed bank robber takes a Stockholm apartment-viewing hostage. Backman's structurally most ambitious novel and the basis for the Netflix limited series.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 2012 review. A fifty-nine-year-old Swedish curmudgeon plans his suicide until a young family moves in across the courtyard. Backman's debut.
Beartown by Fredrik Backman 2017 review. A small Swedish forest town stakes its identity on its junior hockey team. An assault by the star player splits the town. Backman's most ambitious novel and the first of the Beartown trilogy.