Patrik Svensson

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Agent

Johanna Lindborg

Head of Agency | Fiction & Non-Fiction, Film & TV

Agent

Johanna Lindborg

Head of Agency | Fiction & Non-Fiction, Film & TV

Agent

Johanna Lindborg

Head of Agency | Fiction & Non-Fiction, Film & TV

Patrik Svensson

Patrik Svensson, b. 1972, is an arts and culture journalist at Sydsvenskan newspaper. Patrik lives with his family in Malmö, Sweden. THE GOSPEL OF EELS is his debut.

Books by Patrik Svensson

The Merciful Killer

Patrik Svensson

A harrowing and enlightening story of a puzzling family secret and the birth of the worker’s movement in SwedenOn a freezing February morning in 1942, a young woman flees barefoot on a snow-covered field in Skåne. In her wake lies an unthinkable trag…

Swedish title: Den barmhärtige mördaren

Category: General Non-Fiction

Pub date: 29-08-2025

The Blue Marble

Patrik Svensson

The highly-anticipated new book by Patrik Svensson, internationally award-winning, New York Times, Time Magazine, LA Times, Sunday Times and Washington Post acclaimed author of The Gospel of the Eels.In this new book, Patrik takes us on a different e…

Swedish title: Den lodande människan

Category: General Non-Fiction

Pub date: 15-08-2022

The Gospel of Eels

Patrik Svensson

Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, THE GOSPEL OF EELS is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little,…

Swedish title: Ålevangeliet

Category: General Non-Fiction

Pub date: 30-07-2019