EMMY ABRAHAMSON

Sparklingly funny

Feelgood fiction
How to get thrown overboard

How to get thrown overboard


How to graduate from the laughing academy

How to graduate from the laughing academy


How to fall in love with a man who lives in a bush

How to fall in love with a man who lives in a bush

Audio/digital
The job interview

The job interview


The male escort

The male escort

YA & Children's fiction

THE ADVENTURE IN THE TOMATO JUNGLE


THE ADVENTURE IN THE WATER MAZE

THE ADVENTURE IN THE WATER MAZE


My Dad's Kind and my Mum's a Foreigner

My Dad’s Kind and my Mum’s a Foreigner


Make it Big

Make it Big


Only Way is Up

Only Way is Up


Steal the Show

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.

Author photo

Jenni Bäcklin. For photo rights please contact the photographer at www.fotografjennybacklin.se