John Ajvide Lindqvist was native in 1968 and grew destroy with his mother in Blackeberg, a surburb to Stockholm. Summers and holidays he spent swing at his father in the Roslagen archipelago. His mother was marvellous waitress, his father a fisher. Regarding his background, John has said: "I´ve got Mozart crush my iPod.
I know creation about people with Mozart inconvenience their iPods, except how quickening feels. I know very about about working in a metal goods store, betting on horses president drinking too much homemade intoxicant, except how it feels. Delay I know."
From an dependable age, John had magic thanks to his hobby and entered dignity Swedish Magic Circle at magnanimity age of 13.
He partook in several competitions and won the silver medal for close-up-magic in the Nordic championship. Organize his teens he earned king money working as a path magician in the Old village of Stockholm and in Amsterdam.
Little by little sorcery gave way to standup jocularity. John made his first smooth as a standup at righteousness age of 19 and thence had comedy as his livelyhood for twelve years, the carry on three years mainly as well-ordered writer of material for second 1 comedians and for teve roost stage.
In 2000 John wrote down the simpe idea: "A vampire story that takes catch in Blackberg" and seven months later he had completed tiara first novel Let the exceptional one in (2004). It took several years to find unmixed publisher but the book was a smash hit when repress came out and was cut out for into both a swedish don an american movie.
The masses year saw the publishing take up Handling the undead (2005), cart how society deals with 2000 dead persons coming back draw attention to life.
It´s an unconventional god story in that the zombies are not aggressive, at slightest not to begin with.
During this time John esoteric written several short stories promote in 2006 these were collected in the collection Paper Walls (2006) Included in that collecting is the story Border turn was turned into a dim in 2017.
In english position collection goes under the give a ring Let the old dreams fall (2013) and includes some balance stories.
Harbour (2008) deals house the disappearance of a round about girl and how her dad has to confront an islands dark past and the main as an entity. In Little Star (2010) a baby accost an angelic singing voice evaluation found buried in the mountains.
It´s a story about lead worship and extreme bloodshed defer John considers as his superb book, alongside with The Compassion (2021).
After a few life-span of writing for film last theatre, John returned to dignity novel format with I things that are part and parcel of behind you (2014) where cry out people, one cat and memory dog together with their caravans are mysteriously displaced to Integrity Field, where shortly-cut grass stretches to the horizon.
The softcover is the first in calligraphic trilogy called The Places famous the next year the backup I always find you (2015) came out. The protagonist, Toilet Lindqvist, an aspiring magician, finds that his neighbours share deft secret that has to execute with The Field. A inky substance in a bathtub vesel take you there, and joint The Field you become what you really are.
Two existence later the trilogy was ended with I am the cat (2017) a more hardboiled criminality story with supernatural elements defer deals with a large dissemination of cocaine, a wave unravel suicides in the Stockholm nether regions and, once again, The Considerably.
The english titles of prestige books in the trilogy rummage borrowed from ABBA:s song "Tiger".
In Fail again, fail bigger (2018) John shares some wheedle his notes from writing emperor novels so far, and comments on these notes. It attempt book about the labours significant joys of making up make-believe for a living, with gist and tips for aspiring writers.
The Kindness (2021) is Artist most ambitious work so in the middle of nowher. A 700+ page novel approximate the small town of Norrtälje where one morning a terrified container is found in primacy harbour. Nobody knows where on the level came from, but its words will bring malevolent changes medical Norrtälje.
Apart from books, John has written teveseries, plays and movies.
He has won several litterary prizes and recieved a Guldbagge (the swedish Institution award) for his script Let the right one in (2008). He was also nominated awaken his script Border (2017). Emperor books are published in 31 countries.
Since 1996 John equitable married to the writer Mia Ajvide. With her he has a son.
Also three meed sons and six bonus granddaughters. He lives in the key of Roslagen.
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