Gabriella Håkansson

Gabriella Hakansson, born 1968, is a Swedish novelist. Her books are renowned for their great psychological originality, complex plots, gothic sense of humour and claustrophobic mapping of the human mind. They have been translated into German, Czech, Danish and Norwegian.

2013 sees the publication of the first part of Hakanssons epic historic novel, The Secret Chamber, set in early 19th century London. Rich orphan William Aldermann spends his childhood in a a huge, neo-classical house, surrounded by a staff of servants as well as old friends of his dead father. The boy soons discovers that he has a deeply troubling heritage: the father was the leader of a mysterious, elitist society of free-thinking radicals.

Hakansson is also a literary critic and essayist. Her lengthier essays concern writers such as William Beckford, Witold Gombrowicz, Mickey Spillane, Peter Weiss and Jorge Louis Borges. She features regularly in the Swedish news daily Dagens Nyheter, as well as on national public radio.

In 2008 Hakanson was Program Director for the WALTIC International Literary Conference in Stockholm. She now lives in the countryside outside of Malmö, in the south of Sweden.

Bibliography

• Nya Londinium (2014) (New Londinium)
• Det hemliga rummet (2013) (The Secret Chamber)
• Hjärnmänniskan (2007) (Hearing Voices)
• Fallet Sandemann (2002) (The Sandemann Case)
• Operation B (1997) (Operation B)

External links

• Publisher's Info
• Nordin Agency