Author

Books by Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman is a Swedish author and journalist whose novels have sold over twelve million copies worldwide and been translated into more than forty languages. He began his writing career as a blogger and columnist before publishing A Man Called Ove in 2012. Subsequent novels include My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Beartown, and Us Against You. Anxious People, published in Sweden in 2019 and internationally in 2020, became his bestselling novel to date and was adapted into a Netflix series in 2021. Backman is known for accessible prose, ensemble casts, and an unflinching attention to ordinary human suffering.