Mats Strandberg
Mats Strandberg (* 1976 in Fagersta ) is a Swedish writer , columnist and journalist .
life and work
Mats Strandberg was born and raised in the small Swedish town of Fagersta, but left his hometown at the age of 16 and moved to Stockholm . He still works as a freelance journalist and a columnist for the tabloid Aftonbladet and the LGBT - magazine QX . For his columns he was named Columnist of the Year in 2004 by Sveriges Tidskrifter , the association of Swedish magazine publishers .
Even in his youth, Mats Strandberg had the desire to become a writer. In 2006 he published his debut novel Jaktsäsong . His third novel Halva liv was published in 2009 and was published in 2011 under the German title Halbes Leben by C. Bertelsmann Verlag .
Together with the Swedish writer Sara Bergmark Elfgren , he wrote the Engelsfors trilogy, a fantasy series for young people, which was published in German by Dressler Verlag . Cirkeln , the first volume in this series, published in 2012 under the German title Zirkel , was nominated in 2011 for the Swedish August Prize in the category of children's and young people's books and was also made into a film in 2015.
Strandberg's first horror novel, Färjan , which was published in German by Fischer Tor under the title Die Überfahrt 2017 , was on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks .
Mats Strandberg lives with his husband, the Swedish actor Johan Ehn , in Södermalm , a district of Stockholm.
Works
Novels
- 2006 Jaktsäsong
- 2007 Bekantas bekanta
- 2009 Halva liv
- Half a life (German translation by Gabriele Haefs ), C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-10061-5 .
Horror novels
- 2015 Färjan
- The crossing (German translation by Antje Rieck-Blankenburg ), Fischer Tor, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29599-9 .
- 2017 Hemmet
- Das Heim (German translation by Nina Hoyer ), Fischer Tor, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-596-70367-8 .
Youth novels
- 2018 Slutet
- Das Ende (German translation by Antje Rieck-Blankenburg), Arctis Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-038-80029-3 .
Engelsfors trilogy (together with Sara Bergmark Elfgren)
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Circles
- Zirkel (German translation by Friederike Buchinger ), Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-791-52854-0 .
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Eld
- Fire (German translation by Friederike Buchinger), Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-791-52855-7 .
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Nyckeln
- Key (German translation by Friederike Buchinger), Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-791-52856-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mats Strandberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mats beach Mountain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the author
- Interview with Mats Strandberg at Fischer Tor Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tor Online | FISCHER TOR is an imprint of S. FISCHER Verlag GmbH: Interview: Mats Strandberg about horror, vampires and reality . In: Tor Online - Science Fiction. Fantasy. And all the rest . ( tor-online.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strandberg, Mats |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fagersta |