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. His debut, The Gospel of Eels, became a huge international success and was translated into 38 languages. His nature writings have captured the heart of a worldwide readership.

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