New Author: Maxim Grigoriev
We are proud to welcome Maxim Grigoriev to Paloma Agency.
Maxim Grigoriev (1980) is an award-winning author and translator whose life has spanned multiple languages and cultures. Grigoriev made his literary debut in 2014 with the short story collection Cities, tales of a variety of social misfits in European cities from Lisbon to Berlin. 2016 marked the publication of his first novel, Now. Grigoriev’s second novel, Europe, was published in 2021 to great acclaim and widespread recognition. The book received several awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature and Svenska Dagbladet’s Literature Prize, to name but a few. The same year, the book was also nominated for the August Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award.
Grigoriev’s latest novel, The Rain, was published in 2022. A fourth novel, a Künstlerroman and ode to the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf, is slated for release by Albert Bonniers Förlag in Fall of 2026.
