Sara Bergmark Elfgren (born 1980) is a Swedish writer and screenwriter. Her first novel, ''
Cirkeln'' (''The Circle)'', and the sequels ''
Eld'' (''Fire'') and ''
Nyckeln'' (The Key) (known collectively as
the Engelsfors trilogy), were written together with
Mats Strandberg
Mats Strandberg (born 1976) is a Swedish author.
Strandberg has been a columnist in Aftonbladet.
His debut novel was ''Jaktsäsong'', published in 2006. His young adult fantasy novel ''Cirkeln'', the first book in the '' Engelsfors'' trilogy wr ...
and published in 2011–2013.
''Cirkeln'' was an
August Prize
The August Prize ( sv, Augustpriset) is an annual Swedish literary prize awarded each year since 1989 by the Swedish Publishers' Association. The prize is awarded to the best Swedish book of the year, in three categories.
Prize
In the years 1989- ...
nominee in the youth literature category.
The books have been translated into 25 languages.
In 2016, Bergmark Elfgren created and wrote the radio
mockumentary
A mockumentary (a blend of ''mock'' and ''documentary''), fake documentary or docu-comedy is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
These productions are often used to analyze or comment on ...
thriller ''De dödas röster'' (''Voices of the Dead'') which received favourable reviews.
It was nominated to
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.
Her novel ''Norra Latin'' was published in 2017.
It is a supernatural young adult novel set at the
Norra Latin secondary school in Stockholm; in the novel, the school was never closed, and it houses a theatre programme where the story's main characters are students.
Together with artist Karl Johnsson she created the graphic novel ''Vei - book 1'', which was published in 2017, an epic fantasy story inspired by
Norse Mythology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern peri ...
.
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Bibliography
* ''Cirkeln'' (2011) (with Mats Strandberg)
* ''Eld'' (2012) (with Mats Strandberg)
* ''Nyckeln'' (2013) (with Mats Strandberg)
* ''Norra Latin'' (2017)
* ''Vei - book 1'' (with Karl Johnsson)
* ''Vei - book 2'' (with Karl Johnsson)
* ''Grim'' (2021)
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
Swedish fantasy writers
Swedish screenwriters
Swedish writers of young adult literature
Swedish women screenwriters
Women writers of young adult literature
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
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