PATRIK LUNDBERG (1983) is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Stockholm. He has received numerous awards for his investigative journalism including The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism and the Golden Shovel from the Swedish Association of Investigative Journalism.

Lundberg made his literary debut in 2013 with the praised YA novel Yellow on the Outside, an honest story about the author’s own background as an adopted boy from South Korea. In 2020, Butterfly Road was published, marking Lundberg’s first novel for adults. The book was loved by readers and critics alike and is a loving but also heartbreaking portrait of a woman’s life at the fringes of the Swedish society.

Since 2020, Patrik Lundberg has been working as a reporter and columnist at Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest daily morning newspaper.

Reviews

“A portrait which strikes against the class society. […] Without a contestable and bright son, Birgitta Lundberg’s fate would still be unsung.”
Aftonbladet (SE)

“Lundberg excels in writing both personally and politically at once.”
Göteborgs-Posten (SE)

“Lundberg’s prose to the mother hits hard.”
Svenska Dagbladet (SE)

“[…] a beautifully knitted story about a mother.”
Expressen (SE)

“The text is raw and striking.”
Sydsvenskan (SE)

“One of this fall’s most important books.”
Smålandsposten (SE)

“Butterfly Road is a primal, revealing page turner about class society, a slap which is delivered so politely and gracefully that one almost does not notice that the author is fighting.”
Blekinge Läns Tidning (SE)

“[…] a warm, personal and tender letter from a son to a mother, and a sharp analysis of the society that killed her.”
Värmlands Dagblad (SE)

“A story that pierces one’s heart.”
Norrtelje Tidning (SE)

“An equally beautiful and important book about creating dreams and managing to hold on to the opportunity of affecting one’s life, even while being slowly weighed down.”
Nöjesguiden (SE)

“Patrik Lundberg can truly write. […] has an ability to turn the spotlight toward details, which in turn tell a bigger story of Sweden’s evolution from social people’s movement to a neoliberal welfare state.”
ETC (SE)

“A vigorous and humorous story about our age”
Svenska Dagbladet (SE)

“Patrik Lundberg writes good dialogue extremely well and has an exceptional flow.”
Göteborgs-Posten (SE)

“It is fantastic!”
Vi Läser (SE)

“An absolute privilege to read.”
Norran (SE)

“Strong and thought-provoking.”
Borås Tidning (SE)

“Patrik Lundberg makes me hopeful, as he shows that stiff postions are less stiff and locked in than we might believe. He makes it perfectly clear that life can be bigger than that.”
Helsingfors Dagblad (SE)

“An excellent story of today’s Sölvesborg, Blekinge, Sweden.”
Blekinge Läns Tidning (SE)

“It would be extraordinary on the big screen.”
Sydöstran (SE)

“I am hoping for more books by Patrik Lundberg. He has important stories to tell, and he knows how to write them.”
Dagens Nyheter (SE)

“Lundberg writes with raw emotions about how society’s gaze has creeped in and settled in his innermost being.”
Expressen (SE)

“Yellow on the Outside is a captivating novel with an unusual mix of darkness and ease, humor and gravity.”
Sydsvenskan (SE)

“Painful, gripping and depicted exceedingly well.”
Gomorron Sverige (SE)

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Awards

2024 – Honorary Doctorate of Malmö University
2021 – Awarded the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism in the category Scoop of the Year
2021 – Awarded Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan’s Author Prize for Butterfly Road
2021 – Awarded the Golden Shovel from the Swedish Association of Investigative Journalism
2019 – Nominated for the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism in the category Voice of the Year

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