John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish author who was born and raised in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm. He wanted to become something awful and fantastic. First he became a conjurer and came in second in the Nordic card trick championship. Then he was a stand-up comedian for twelve years.
John Ajvide Lindqvist has written parts of the TV series Reuter & Skoog as well as stage plays and tv drama. Let the Right One In, his first novel, was selected as Best Novel in Translation 2005 in Norway and shortlisted for the Prize in Literature of the Swedish Radio and winner of the 2008 Selma Lagerlöf Prize for Literature: ”For a body of work that encompasses masterly storytelling and a feel for the strong forces of horror and imagination.” Lindqvist is also a winner of GP:s Litteraturpris in 2008 and a niminee for the August Prize in 2015.
Lindqvist has kept his strong position in the genre field by publishing independent yet connected collections of novels: I Am Behind You, I Always Find You, Our Skin, Our Blood, Our Bones and The Last Place. The movie Border by Ali Abassi based on the novel by the same name and co-written by Lindqvist premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 within the Un Certain Regard section.
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