New Author: Jonas Brun

We are proud to welcome Jonas Brun to Paloma Agency.

Jonas Brun (1979) is an acclaimed Swedish author, translator and neuropsychologist based in Stockholm. He made his literary debut in 2004 with the novel Another Time. His second novel, The Amphibian Heart, published in 2009, won the prestigious Mare Kandre Prize. In 2012 his novel, Shadowland, was awarded with Swedish Radio’s Novel Prize, further cementing his reputation as a distinctive voice on the Swedish literary scene. Brun is also a celebrated poet, with several poetry collections to his name.

In addition to his own writing, Brun is a successful translator from English to Swedish, and translates both drama and poetry, notably bringing Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück’s Averno and The Wild Iris, Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems and Matthew Lopez The Inheritance to Swedish.

Brun’s most recent novel She Doesn’t Remember, published in 2021 by Albert Bonnier, received widespread acclaim from readers and critics alike. The book is a deeply personal memoir about his mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s and intertwines Brun’s literary skill with his expertise as a neuropsychologist specializing in dementia assessments, offering a deeply human and layered perspective on memory, loss and love.