Bengt Ohlsson
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Elisabet Brännström
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Elisabet Brännström
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Elisabet Brännström
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Elisabet Brännström
Bengt Ohlsson
Bengt Ohlsson (b. 1968) had his debut 1984 with the novel I SAID, DIE LIKE A MAN. In 2004 he was awarded with the August Prize for the novel GREGORIUS, and was then nominated again in 2011 for REQUIEM FOR JOHN CUMMINGS. In 2014 SWING was released. He also writes drama, and is a well-known chronicler in Dagens Nyheter.
Awards: Stockholm stads hederspris (2001), The August Prize (2004), Eyvind Johnsonpriset (2008)
Books by Bengt Ohlsson
Head and Shoulders Above
Bengt Ohlsson
The year is 1918. Arvid is going up north to work with his father in the forest. Ragnar runs away from home to join the Swedish Brigade in the Finnish Civil War. Somewhere along the way their fates are intertwined. They become strike breakers at a ti…
Drink the Warmth from My Hand
Bengt Ohlsson
DRINKING THE WARMTH FROM MY HAND is a sad story about a man who begins to reconsider most of his relationships and thus slowly realises the extent of his loneliness, in the middle of a big city life filled mingling, theatre premieres and couples dinn…
Swing
Bengt Ohlsson
Bengt Ohlsson’s SWING is a comical, tender and gripping story about our demands for excitement and fantasy in our sex life in a time when porn is called erotica and you can buy dildos at the nearest pharmacy. Like no other, Bengt Ohlsson is able to c…
Requiem for John Cummings
Bengt Ohlsson
REQUIEM FOR JOHN CUMMINGS is a completely unexpected portrayal of one of rock’s most famous men.His artist name was Johnny Ramone. This is the novel about his life and death.
Kolka
Bengt Ohlsson
KOLKA is a story about a girl about to become an adult who desperately tries to orient herself in a new environment and is amongst one of the strongest portraits Bengt Ohlsson has ever written.
