Fredrik Backman

Backman grew up in Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden. He has been writing for the Swedish newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad and for the Swedish men's magazine, Moore Magazine. Backman debuted as a novelist in 2012 with A Man Called Ove. The novel was adapted as a film which premiered on 25 December 2015, and again in 2023.^[2] The rights to his book Beartown were bought by Swedish production company, Filmlance. It was adapted for television in 2020.^[3] Many of his books have been translated into English. After his debut novel, A Man Called Ove, was translated into English, it spent over a year on The New York Times Best Seller list.^[4][5] Following the success of his first book, Atria/Simon & Schuster bought the rights to his other novels and had them translated into English.^[4]

Fredrik Backman married Neda Shafti Backman in 2009.^[6] They have two children. His second book, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World (2012), was based on his own experiences with parenting. He labeled it a "dysfunctional parenting guide" and made a deal that his publisher had to publish the book in order to publish A Man Called Ove.^[7]