Biography

"A truly fascinating, subtle and revelatory portrait of this enigmatic character and perhaps the closest any historian has got to the real man and the truth of his fate." Simon Sebag Montefiore Raoul Wallenberg had envisioned a different life. He so ...

New updated edition!In May 2010, Norstedts released Jesper Bengtsson’s biography on Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November 2010 and in February 2011 Jesper Bengtsson managed t ...

“The duels were of surprisingly high class, few misses, mainly winning shots, considering they were playing in a constant crisis situation. It seemed to be just as difficult to have an advantage in one’s favour as against one. The public almost got l ...

High-jumper Patrik Sjöberg is one of Sweden’s best known and most successful sportsmen through the ages. He has won a world championship gold medal, three Olympic medals and still holds the Swedish record in high jump with his feat of 2.42 metres at ...

Here in Sweden we love Jussi Björling, not just for his exquisite singing but also because he was a man with strengths as well as weaknesses. In his great moments at the Metropolitan he was the urbane world tenor; in his weak moments he wasthe local ...

Torgny Lindgren writes down his reminiscences which together form a story. What is true and has actually happened, the reader will probably never find out. And that isn’t the point either. As we know, one’s memory is an extremely unreliable source. ...

“And yet I am one of those people who got stuck in Strindberg’s net,” writes Lena Einhorn in her introductory chapter to this book. “He has entered my sphere, without my inviting him in.” “Getting to grips with August Strindberg – this hyperproduct ...

In the mid-1960s, Käbi Laretei gives a concert in Carnegie Hall. After her arrival back home, she receives a letter in which an American publisher, Clay Coss, offers to sponsor a number of concerts for her in the USA. This marks the beginning of a lo ...

This is the big, definitive book about Olof Palme and his life, written with an international readership in mind. Palme’s life stretches over the epoch that is sometimes called ‘the short 20th century’. He was born eight years after the end of the Fi ...

Kurdo Baksi was one of Stieg’s few really close friends. They called each other ‘little brother’ and ‘big brother’. Stieg’s death was a great loss to him. Not long after Steig died, he became one of the widely-read crime writers, and this has led to ...

Millennium-star debutes as a writer 7 million people around the world have seen Michael Nyqvist on the screen as Mikael Blomqvist, in the film version of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. In August 2009 he debuted as an author with När barnet lagt ...

Mikael Andersson was condemned to a life in an institution when he was born without arms and legs over forty years ago. Follow his path from a childhood struggle against the prejudices of the time, to today when he is an active lecturer and is also a ...

She was a celebrated pianist, and he a world famous film director. They met, fell in love, broke up from their earlier lives and got married. They were committed to each other and to their marriage, a commitment they had not made previously. Yet it d ...

Was she the girl next door or one of history’s most gifted women? A profligate or a devoted mother? Or maybe all of them at once? One of the most fascinating figures in history, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE) is among the few women of anci ...

Winner of the 2008 August Prize! The book starts off at a little green house in the Västerbotten province of northern Sweden. It ends with the Enquist’s return, both to writing and to another kind of life, after several despondent years. The rest of ...

Benito Mussolini was not a Hitler-like psychopath or fanatic. He was no ideologue, but a man obsessed with power. His lifelong motto was, “If you are not with me, you are against me.” As Italy’s dictator, Mussolini long commanded more popularity tha ...