Mats Strandberg (born 1976) is a Swedish author. Strandberg has been a columnist in Aftonbladet. His

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was ''Jaktsäsong'', published in 2006. His young adult fantasy novel ''Cirkeln'', the first book in the ''

Engelsfors ''Engelsfors'' is a Swedish young adult fantasy trilogy written by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren. All three novels in the series have been translated into English. A Swedish film adaptation of the first book in the series, ''Cirkel ...

'' trilogy written together with

Sara Bergmark Elfgren Sara Bergmark Elfgren (born 1980) is a Swedish writer and screenwriter. Her first novel, ''Cirkeln'' (''The Circle)'', and the sequels ''Fire (Elfgren and Strandberg novel), Eld'' (''Fire'') and ''The Key (Elfgren and Strandberg novel), Nyckeln'' ...

and published in 2011, was an August Prize nominee in the youth literature category. Strandberg has also written horror novels. In 2015, his novel ''Färjan'', which is set on board a Baltic Sea cruiseferry, was published. It was translated into English as ''Blood Cruise'' and published in the UK by

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. ''Hemmet'', about a residential care home haunted by ghosts, was published in 2017; ''Slutet'', a preapocalyptic young adult novel about the final few weeks of life on Earth before a comet destroys all life, was released in 2018 and received very positive reviews in ''

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'' and '' SVT''. Strandberg is married to the actor Johan Ehn.

Bibliography

* ''Jaktsäsong'', 2007 * ''Bekantas bekanta'', 2008 * ''Halva liv'', 2009 * The ''Engelsfors'' trilogy (with Sara Bergmark Elfgren) ** ''Cirkeln'', 2011; published in English as '' The Circle'', 2012 ** ''Eld'', 2012; published in English as ''

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'', 2014 ** ''Nyckeln'', 2013; published in English as '' The Key'', 2015 * ''Färjan'', 2015; published in English as ''Blood Cruise'', 2017 * ''Hemmet'', 2017; published in English as ''The Home'', 2020 * ''Slutet'', 2018; published in English as ''The End'', 2020

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