Britt Ekland is a Swedish actress, model, and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Double Man (1967), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Machine Gun McCain (1969), Stiletto (1969), and the British crime film Get Carter (1971), which established her as a sex symbol. She also starred in several horror films, including The Wicker Man (1973), and appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for a series of six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle. The Wall Street Journal has described him as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations".
Maureen Deidre Freely FRSL is an American novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme, University of Warwick, since 1996.
Filip Niclas Berg is a Swedish actor who became known to international audiences for his roles Sebbe in the movies The Ketchup Effect and A Man Called Ove, which was nominated for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards. He also had a leading role in both series of the TV drama, Black Lake.
Frans Jeppsson Wall, also known mononymously as Frans, is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He represented host nation Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm with the song "If I Were Sorry", finishing in fifth place.
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 2010 through to 2019.
Ken Liu is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novel translations and original short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.
Adolf Fredrik's Music School is a general municipal junior high school in Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on choral music, and highly competitive admission based on audition in singing and musical ability. The school has two campuses and three youth choirs of high international standard. Many professional musicians are alumni.
My Struggle is a series of six autobiographical novels written by Karl Ove Knausgård and published between 2009 and 2011. The books cover his private life and thoughts, and unleashed a media frenzy upon their release, with journalists attempting to track down the mentioned members of his family. The series has sold half a million copies in Norway alone and has been published in 35 languages.
A Man Called Ove is a 2015 Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Hannes Holm and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Fredrik Backman. It stars Rolf Lassgård in the title role.
A Man Called Ove is a debut novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman published in Swedish by Forum in 2012. The novel was published in English in 2013 and reached the New York Times Best Seller list 18 months after its publication and stayed on the list for 42 weeks.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is a novel written by the Swedish columnist, blogger, and writer Fredrik Backman. The book was first published in Swedish in 2013. The English translation was later published in 2015. The rights for translation have been sold in more than 40 countries. In 2017, the novel was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
Britt-Marie Was Here is the fourth book by the Swedish columnist, blogger, and writer Fredrik Backman. The novel was originally published in 2014, and was later translated to English and published on May 3, 2016. The main character, Britt-Marie, was featured in Backman's third book, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. The novel was also made into a film of the same title, featuring Pernilla August in the title role and directed by Tuva Novotny.
Atria Publishing Group is a general interest publisher and a division of Simon & Schuster. The publishing group launched as Atria Books in 2002. The Atria Publishing Group was later created internally at Simon & Schuster to house a number of imprints including Atria Books, Atria Trade Paperbacks, Atria Books Espanol, Atria Unbound, Washington Square Press, Emily Bestler Books, Atria/Beyond Words, Cash Money Content, Howard Books, Marble Arch Press, Strebor Books, 37 Ink, Keywords Press and Enliven Books. Atria is also known for creating innovative imprints and co-publishing deals with African-American writers as well as known for experimenting with digital or non-traditional print formats and authors.
Bokförlaget Forum is a Swedish publishing company and a member of Bonnierförlagen, a publishing house within Bonnier Books Nordic. Other publishing companies in the collective publishing house are Albert Bonniers Förlag, Bokförlaget Max Ström, Bonnier Audio, Bonnier Carlsen, Bonnier Fakta, Bonnier Pocket, Månpocket, Kartago, Reseförlaget and Wahlström & Widstrand. Forum publishes around seventy titles annually.
Beartown is a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman. The novel, noted as "hockey literature", centers on a declining youth hockey team in a small town. The story follows the events leading up to a violent incident involving two teenagers and the consequences that they face, the hockey players, their families, friends, and the community which has a long-standing reputation as a hockey town. It is the first book in the Beartown series, followed by Us Against You and The Winners.
A Man Called Ove may refer to:
Anxious People is a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman published by Månpocket in 2019. The novel was published in English in 2021.
Iron Wills is a 1923 Swedish silent drama film directed by John W. Brunius and starring Eugen Skjønberg, Linnéa Hillberg and Torsten Hillberg. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and on location in Norway. The film's sets were designed by the art director Axel Esbensen.
