But it's a different thing entirely to live in the middle of the forest. You're kind of isolated. It's one thing to live in the countryside. "I think first and foremost the residents of Beartown are resilient. It's very, very cold. Eleanor spoke to him from his home there. Sensitive and timely, it explores both the bright and dark sides of "hockey culture."īackman was born in Stockholm in 1981. His latest title, The Winners, concludes his powerful Beartown trilogy, which focuses on a small town and its junior hockey club in the forest of northern Sweden. Altogether his books have sold 12 million copies globally, in 46 languages.Īs an awkward, anxious child, Backman fell in love with sports and books. Backman's subsequent titles - including Beartown and Anxious People - were also hugely popular and have been adapted as series for HBO and Netflix. The book spent 90 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and the movie adaptation was nominated for best foreign film at the Oscars, with an upcoming American remake to star Tom Hanks. Fredrik Backman became a literary phenomenon with the publication of his debut novel, A Man Called Ove, 10 years ago in Sweden.
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