Johan Rundberg

Johan Rundberg is a critically acclaimed Swedish author, having written close to 30 children’s books, easy-to-read and picture books since his debut in 2001. He received the August Prize for Nattkorpen and the Crime Time Award for both Nattkorpen and Tjuvdrottningen in 2021. In 2023, he received the Astrid Lindgren Prize for his contribution to Swedish children’s literature.

The Jury’s praise: Johan Rundbergs authorship deserves to be highlighted. He is phenomenal in creating characters that feel like people, their interactions and dialogues are on another level. Whether he writes about modern punk dreams or children at the bottom of society in 17^th century Stockholm, he produces page turners impossible to resist. He writes with a big love for people and an understated sense of humour that peaks through in his work, and he is always one hundred percent loyal to the children he writes about and for.

Books by Johan Rundberg