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Awards

Årets bok 2009 av tidningen QX

 

Mats Strandberg

Brilliant depicter of relationships

 

The people in Mats Strandberg’s books are intelligent, admirable and able to make their way in the world. By weaving a web of connections between his characters, Mats Strandberg delivers well-woven tapestries inhabited by people that the reader can both admire and loathe, but always can understand and want to follow until the very last page. His eye for the era he’s describing is as sharp as you’d see on a major motion picture or an expensive TV series set.

 

With his third book, Half Lives, Mats Strandberg transformed from writing contemporary city lit and joined the tradition of great story tellers. Both media and the book readers reacted instantly and the book received great reviews. The book was awarded Book of the Year 2009  by QX.

 

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

 

 

Link to Mats Strandberg on Twitter, in English.

 

Bibliography

• 2011 – The Circle (Cirkeln), youth novel
• 2009 – Half Lives (Halva liv), novel
• 2007 – The Friend of a Friend (Bekantas bekanta), novel
• 2005 – Hunting Season (Jaktsäsong), novel

 

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 no such thing, 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

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