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Awards

Book Bloggers Literary Prize 2012

 

Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg

Storytellers with a love for supernatural drama

 

Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg first met in 2008. They quickly realized that they shared a passion for stories with young adults in the lead roles, and soon the idea to write a book together was born. The story took shape and when the idea came up to make the main characters young girls who also are whiches, everything fell into place. The Circle, the first part in The Engelsfors Trilogy, was released in April 2011. Part two and three, Fire and The Key, will be published in 2012 and 2013.

 

Sara B. Elfgren

Sara B. Elfgren started her career in the film industry as a screenwriter. As a script doctor, she has been involved in several Swedish film and TV-productions. The Circle is her debut novel.

 

Mats Strandberg

Mats Strandberg is an author and a journalist. He is a regular columnist for Sweden’s biggest evening newspaper Aftonbladet and 2004 the organization Sveriges Tidskrifter (Sweden’s Newspapers and Magazines) awarded him the title Columnist of the Year.

Mats Strandberg has previously released three books, of which the third one, Half Lifes was awarded Book of the Year 2009 by QX.

 

Link to Sara B. Elfgren's blog in English - Engelsfors stories

Link to Sara B. Elfgren's Swedish website

Link to Mats Strandbergs Twitter in English.

 

Bibliography

• 2012 – Fire (Eld) young adult fiction

• 2011 – The Circle (Cirkeln) young adult fiction

 

Reader's comments

“This is a book one empathizes with to one hundred percent.”

 

"Honestly, one of the best books I've ever read."

 

"Run to your school library and ask the librarians to order in The Circle, then run to your town library and ask the librarians the same thing, or buy the book wherever you can get it."

 

"This success, which just recently started, I want to follow to its goal. If there is a goal, that is."

 

"To illustrate just how good I think The Circle is, I can tell you that despite that I get terribly carsick, I still had to finish reading the last chapter on the bus on the way home from work. I had to put the book down several times because I began to feel sick, but I was just obsessed by knowing how it would end."

 

"You just throw yourself over the text and both want it to (you need to know how it eeeends) and not want it to (because it's so goooood) end."

 

Author photo

Peter Jönsson

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