Sara Bergmark Elfgren (born 1980) is a Swedish writer and screenwriter. Her first novel, ''

Cirkeln ''The Circle'' (Swedish title ''Cirkeln'') is a Swedish young adult fantasy novel written by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren. It is the first part of the ''Engelsfors'' trilogy. The novel takes place in a fictional rural town in Bergsla ...

'' (''The Circle)'', and the sequels '' Eld'' (''Fire'') and '' Nyckeln'' (The Key) (known collectively as the Engelsfors trilogy), were written together with

Mats Strandberg Mats Strandberg (born 1976) is a Swedish author. Strandberg has been a columnist in Aftonbladet. His debut novel was ''Jaktsäsong'', published in 2006. His young adult fantasy novel ''Cirkeln'', the first book in the ''Engelsfors'' trilogy wr ...

and published in 2011–2013. ''Cirkeln'' was an August Prize nominee in the youth literature category. The books have been translated into 25 languages. In 2016, Bergmark Elfgren created and wrote the radio

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thriller ''De dödas röster'' (''Voices of the Dead'') which received favourable reviews. It was nominated to

Prix Europa {{notability, Events, date=March 2021 PRIX EUROPA – The European Broadcasting Festival – is the Europe's largest annual tri-medial festival and competition. The event takes place in the third week of October in Berlin, Germany. PRIX E ...

. Her novel ''Norra Latin'' was published in 2017. It is a supernatural young adult novel set at the

Norra Latin Norra Latin is the familiar Swedish name of a historic Stockholm school more properly known as ''Högre allmänna läroverket för gossar å Norrmalm'' ("public senior secondary school for boys at Norrmalm"). Completed in 1880, for over a hun ...

secondary school in Stockholm; in the novel, the school was never closed, and it houses a theatre programme where the story's main characters are students. Together with artist Karl Johnsson she created the graphic novel ''Vei - book 1'', which was published in 2017, an epic fantasy story inspired by

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.http://grandagency.se/authors/b_elfgren_johnsson/vei.htm

Bibliography

* ''Cirkeln'' (2011) (with Mats Strandberg) * ''Eld'' (2012) (with Mats Strandberg) * ''Nyckeln'' (2013) (with Mats Strandberg) * ''Norra Latin'' (2017) * ''Vei - book 1'' (with Karl Johnsson) * ''Vei - book 2'' (with Karl Johnsson) * ''Grim'' (2021)

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1980 births Living people Swedish fantasy writers Swedish screenwriters Swedish writers of young adult literature Swedish women screenwriters Women writers of young adult literature Women science fiction and fantasy writers {{Sweden-writer-stub