Key facts
- Born
- ( 1981-06-02 ) 2 June 1981 (age 45) , Brännkyrka in Söderort , Sweden
- Occupation
- Columnist , blogger , and novelist
- Period
- 2012–present
- Genre
- Fiction Realistic Fiction Satire Humor
- Notable works
- A Man Called Ove My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Britt-Marie Was Here Beartown
- Spouse
- Neda Shafti Backman
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fredrik
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Sweden
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Official website
- www.fredrikbackmanbooks.com
- Image
- Fredrik Backman, Bokmässan 2014 1 (crop).jpg
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- name in native language
- Fredrik Backman
- date of birth
- 1981-06-02
- Commons category
- Fredrik Backman
- start of work period
- 2012-00-00
- social media followers
- 48050
- birth name
- Carl Fredrik Backman
- official blog URL
- www.fredrikbackman.com
- topic has template
- Template:Fredrik Backman
- writing language
- Swedish
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Encyclopedic overview
Fredrik Backman (born 2 June 1981) is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist. He wrote A Man Called Ove (2012), Things My Son Needs to Know about the World (2012), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2013), Britt-Marie Was Here (2014), Beartown (2017), Us Against You (2018), Anxious People (2020), The Winners (2022), and My Friends (2025). The books were number one bestsellers in his home country of Sweden. Backman's books have been published in more than twenty-five languages.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fredrik Backman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.