Åsa Asptjärn
Åsa Asptjärn makes us laugh out loud! Everyone who has read, loved and grown up with Adrian Mole will be happy to find a new friend in Emanuel Kent. And those readers who have grown out of Greg in Diary of a Wimpy Kid can now read about yet another anti-hero but this time about a teenager with spots, a big nose and stubble on his upper lip. Åsa Asptjärn is a drama writer and writes comic sketches. She can been seen and heard on TV, radio and on stage.
Books by Åsa Asptjärn
The Perfect Weather for Suffering
Åsa Asptjärn
Bim’s life really seems to begin when she first hears the musician David Dvorâk. She cries through the entire album, gripped by some kind of insight into life itself. But now it feels like her life is already about to end, as she, one morning, finds…
Swedish title: Perfekt väder för lidande
Category: Children
Pub date: 24-04-2020
Format: 125 x 205 mm, 180 pages
Frankie and Vegan
Åsa Asptjärn
Bodil is called Frankie because she loved frankfurters when she was little. She has now just finished 6th grade and it’s the summer holidays. But it’s a time when everyone, including Frankie, realises that after four years, she and Veronika are no lo…
Swedish title: Wursten och Veganen
Category: Children
Pub date: 05-09-2017
Format: 125 x 197 mm, 192 pages
Reasonably Lucky Moments
Åsa Asptjärn
New term, new school and new friends. Emanuel can finally be a whole new person and start afresh. But who is he? And perhaps more importantly, who does he want to be? With Emanuel Kent, Åsa Asptjärn created a brilliant anti-hero, the Swedish response…
Swedish title: Rimligt lyckade ögonblick
Category: Children
Pub date: 13-01-2017
Format: 125x197 mm, 224 pages
Manifest for the Hopeless
Åsa Asptjärn
Emanuel Kent is back, this time with a manifest of “how everything must remain as it is”. But how do you achieve that when everything keeps on changing around you? While Emanuel daydreams about being swallowed up as if in a black hole, everyone is ta…
Swedish title: Manifest för hopplösa
Category: Children
Pub date: 31-07-2015
Format: 125x197 mm, 240 pages
The Art of Having Extremely Low Expectations
Åsa Asptjärn
“Take a look at my lousy life and do the opposite”. That’s what Emanuel Kent Sjögren says. He is the spiritual philosopher in this book. The reader is offered Emanuel’s philosophical advice on life, sometimes humorous, sometimes black as he muddles t…
Swedish title: Konsten att ha sjukt låga förväntningar
Series: Emanuel Kent
Category: Children
Pub date: 02-01-2014
Format: 224 pages, 125 x 197 mm