När barnet lagt sig

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 sig which has been very well-received by the Press.

“My childhood seems to make women become helpful, and men to say that you just have to move on,” writes actor Michael Nyqvist in the autobiographical story När barnet lagt sig. It is essentially about how Nyqvist as an adopted child tries to get into contact with his real father, and how he – as an adult – eventually finds him. This story met with a warm response when he first told it in public in a popular radio programme, and now we have the book version. This is a very moving story. To go in search of your origins and a missing parent is a fundamental tale of longing and vulnerability which gives rise to the greatest possible sympathy.

Review Excerpts for When the Child has Gone to Bed:
"Michael Nyqvist writes more or less like he acts: skilfully, with considerable naivety and from inside a sort of muteness where words don’t seem to break through until the pressure becomes too great. As an artistic method it is, at its best, an effective high-pressure force." Dagens Nyheter

"The book is well written, thought-provoking and now and then quite hair-raising, like when his adoptive mother during a journey to Italy – Michael is then about 5 or 6 years old – in a decidedly clumsy way tells her adoptive son how it really is: “I am your mother, but not your real mother /…/ Your real mother who had you in her tummy isn’t me, but I am your real mother." Svenska Dagbladet

"När barnet lagt sig is the most refreshing debut I’ve read in a long time."
Östgöta-Correspondenten

Rights sold to:
Cappelen Damm, Norway
Murdoch Books, Australia