Rights sold

Denmark

Finland

Germany

Sweden

 

Awards

Great Readers Prize 2007

Spårhunden 2011

Åsa Anderberg Strollo

Urgent emotions and high suspense

 

When Åsa Anderberg Strollo writes books she thinks of her readers to be as impatient readers as she sees herself. That is probably why the drive is high in her books and a lot of things happen in only a few pages. Before her debut 2007 with Breaking change, she already had solid experience in writing  from years or working with film scripts, as a copy reader at Swedish Television and as a short story author. Breaking change, a touching story about a young girl who has to balance her life between trying to be a regular teenager while also caring for her mentally ill mother, was nominated to both the August Prize as well as Slangbellan (best debuting author in the Young Adult genre), and it won the Great Reader’s Prize.

 

Hope, which was written in close cooperation with the Stockholm City Mission and Save the Children and is about homeless teenagers, was awarded Spårhunden 2011 (best youth detective novel of the year).

 

In addition to her awarded books, Åsa Anderberg Strollo still writes film scripts, TV scripts and theater, as well as chronicles and short stories for magazines. Her play It takes time to become young has been seen by 4000 Stockholm high school students.

 

Åsa Anderberg Strollo’s ability to remember what life as a teenager was like creates trustworthy stories about teenage life’s different parts, the happy moments as well as the less happy ones. She is skilled in describing feelings, and together with the high drive, she writes books with action filled reading, but where the reader still is given time to rest in the events and emotions.

 

Author's website: www.anderbergstrollo.se

 

Bibliography

• 2011 – Hope (Hoppas), young adult novel
• 2009 – Blood (Blod), young adult novel
• 2007 – Breaking Change (Bryta om), young adult novel

 

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