THERESE BOHMAN GREW up in Kolmården outside of Norrköping, but currently lives in Stockholm where she works as an an author and culture journalist. She made her debut with the acclaimed novel Den drunknade (Drowned, 2010), which was selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read. It was followed by Den andra kvinnan (The Other Woman, 2014), nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015 and the Swedish Radio Literature Prize; Aftonland (Eventide, 2016), nominated for the prestigious August Prize; and Andromeda (2022), which was awarded the Broocman Prize.
HER MOST RECENT novel, Sanningsberget (Mount Verity, 2024), was nominated for several awards, including Svenska Dagbladet’s Literature Prize and the August Prize, and won Vi magazine’s Literature Prize with the following citation:
“With Mount Verity, Therese Bohman has written a compelling page-turner, a coming-of-age story where details are rendered with razor-sharp precision against a contrasting, timelessly enigmatic backdrop.”
Bohman has also been awarded the Norrköping Municipality’s Cultural Grant in memory of Moa Martinson, as well as the Christmas Prize from the literary society Samfundet De Nio.
BOHMAN IS ONE of Sweden’s most magnificent literary voices. Her razor-sharp portraits – often of young women – are paired with precise descriptions of the setting. In her novels, entire worlds open up within the characters just as steadily and inevitably as the plot moves toward its destined conclusion. Bohman’s prose is at once dreamy, almost enchanted, and then sharply realistic – she is a master of building tension. When Bohman writes, she brushes her canvas with words to create a novel full of vivid imagery. Her language is exact, and she weaves in contradiction, provocation, and ambiguity without offering simple answers.
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