EMMY ABRAHAMSON
Sparklingly funny
Feelgood fiction
How to get thrown overboard
How to graduate from the laughing academy
How to fall in love with a man who lives in a bush
Audio/digital
The job interview
The male escort
YA & Children's fiction
THE ADVENTURE IN THE TOMATO JUNGLE
THE ADVENTURE IN THE WATER MAZE
My Dad’s Kind and my Mum’s a Foreigner
Make it Big
Only Way is Up
Steal the Show
Rights
Bulgaria
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Lithuania
Norway
The Netherlands
Poland
Russia
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
UK
US
Awards & nominations
2016 – Nominated for Ystads Allehandas Cultur Award
2012 – “Only Way is up” – nominated for the August Award
2012 – ”My Dad is nice and my Mum is a foreigner” – nominated for the Children’s Radio Book Award
Emmy Abrahamson wanted to be a serious writer so that people would think that she was as wise as her literary-hero Gandalf. Yet she soon discovered that her writing was more like Merry and Pippin after smoking pipe-weed, and she now sees it as an honor to be called one of Sweden’s foremost feelgood and comedic writers.
Swedish/Polish and the daughter of a foreign correspondent, Emmy grew up in Sweden, the Soviet Union and Austria, becoming the epitome of a third culture kid. She then went to drama school in the UK, only to realize that she didn’t like being on stage and would much rather be the puppetmaster behind the curtain.
Her debut My Dad’s Kind and My Mum’s a Foreigner (2011) was a young adult book received to great critical acclaim, and her second young adult book Only Way is Up (2012) was nominated for the August Award. Her first book for adults, How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush (2016), based on how she had met her own husband, became an international bestseller and has been sold to 21 territories.
Emmy loves writing about intelligent, complex, relatable women who also happen to be very, very funny.
Bibliography feelgood
2020 – How to Get Thrown Overboard (Hur man blir slängd överbord), novel
2018 – How to Graduate from the Laughing Academy (Hur man gör succé på dårhus), novel
2016 – How to Fall in Love With a Man Who Lives in a Bush (Hur man förälskar sig i en man som bor i en buske), novel
Bibliography audio/digital
2018 – The Job Interview (Anställningsintervjun)
2018 – The Male Escort (Den manliga eskorten)
Bibliography YA & Children’s fiction
2024 – The Adventure in the Tomato Jungle (Äventyret i tomatdjungeln), novel (6-9)
2023 – The Adventure In the Water Maze (Äventyret i vattenlabyrinten), novel (6-9)
2014 – Make it Big (Make it stort), novel (12–15)
2013 – Steal the Show (Stjäla the show), novel (12–15)
2012 – Only Way is Up (Only väg is upp), novel (12–15)
2011 – My Dad’s Kind and My Mum’s a Foreigner (Min pappa är snäll och min mamma är utlänning), novel (12–15)
Author photo
Jenni Bäcklin. For photo rights please contact the photographer at www.fotografjennybacklin.se