PETRUS DAHLIN

Challenges the norm for children and YA books

Children's books – The Ghost Savior series
THE MISCHIEVOUS GHOST

THE MISCHIEVOUS GHOST


THE PARTY GHOST


THE GHOST SAVIORS 4 - THE ANGRY GHOST

THE GHOST SAVIORS 4 – THE ANGRY GHOST


THE GHOST SAVIORS 3 - THE CUDDLY GHOST

THE GHOST SAVIORS 3 – THE CUDDLY GHOST


THE GHOST SAVIORS 2 - THE SCARED GHOST

THE GHOST SAVIORS 2 – THE SCARED GHOST


THE TRAPPED GHOST

THE GHOST SAVIORS 1 – THE TRAPPED GHOST

 

Children's books - The Filix Wood Series
Filix Wood 1 - Survival of the Weakest

Filix Wood 1 – Survival of the Weakest


Filix Wood 2 - The Night of the Greedy Dogs

Filix Wood 2 – The Night of the Greedy Dogs


FILIX WOOD 3 - THE POWER OF THE SHADOWS

FILIX WOOD 3 – THE POWER OF THE SHADOWS

Childen’s books – standalones
THE INVISIBLE

THE INVISIBLE


MY NEW FRIEND HÅKEN

MY NEW FRIEND HÅKEN


THE SCAR

Rights and awards

Rights for Filix Wood
Czech Republic
Sweden

Rights for The Ghost Saviors
Denmark
Israel
Norway
Sweden

Rights for standalones
Denmark
Sweden

Awards & Nominations

2023 –  My New Friend Håken shortlisted for Crimetime Award 2023 in category “Best Children’s Crime”
2015 – Hide and Seek – The Children’s Library Award

Petrus Dahlin debuted in 2004 and has now written around fifty books for children and teenagers in the genres detective novels, thrillers, fantasy and horror. 

Petrus Dahlin is one of Sweden’s most successful authors for children and teenagers. As a child he used to “read” tons of comics magazines, long before he had the skill of reading the texts. To draw comics fanzines was therefore a natural thing to do, and he never had a dream to become an author. The illustrating took him to the field of advertising, marketing and information, which is in some way a type of story-telling where you have a couple of seconds to say something catchy enough to make people listen. However, he found it too shallow and the fascination to scare others, which he had already as a child, led him to become an author.

Since 2010 he writes full-time and every year he meets no less than 2 500-3 000 children on his numerous authors visits to schools and libraries. His fan club among the young readers is enormous and his post box is filled with fan mails. For the last ten years he has had at least one title on the top list when the voting for the winner in the “The Children’s Library Award” (a Swedish national website promoting reading) takes place, and 2015 he won with Hide and Seek. Petrus Dahlin is also a member of The Swedish Academy for Children’s Books.

Petrus Dahlin/Charlie Chipped (Kalle Skavank) website

BIBLIOGRAPHY CHILDREN AND YA FICTION

The Ghost Saviors
2024 – The Ghost Saviors 6 – The  Mischievous Ghost (Det busiga spöket), children’s book (6-9)
2023 – The Ghost Saviors 5 – The Party Ghost (Det festliga spöket), children’s book (6-9)
2023 – The Ghost Saviors 4 – The Angry Ghost (Det arga spöket), children’s book (6-9)
2022 – The Ghost Saviors 3 – The Cuddly Ghost (Det gosiga spöket), children’s book (6-9)
2022 – The Ghost Saviors 2 – The Scared Ghost (Det rädda spöket), children’s book (6-9)
2022 – The Ghost Saviors 1 – The Trapped Ghost (Det instängda spöket), children’s book (6-9)

Filix Wood
2021 – Filix Wood 3 – The Power of the Shadows (I skuggornas våld), children’s novel (9-12)
2020 – Filix Wood 2 – The Night of the Greedy Dogs (Filix Wood 2 – De giriga hundarnas natt), children’s novel (9-12)
2019 – Filix Wood 1 – Survival of the Weakest (Filix Wood 1 – Bara den svagaste överlever), children’s novel (9-12)

Standalones
2024 – The Invisible (Den osynlige), children’s novel (9-12)
2023 – My New Friend Håken (Min nya vän Håken), children’s novel (9-12)
2020 – The Scar (Ärret), children’s novel (9-12)

Petrus Dahlin is one of Sweden’s most popular children’s and YA authors and has written over 50 books, one of the popular series is about Charlie Chipped (Kalle Skavank). Please ask for full biography.

Reviews

“One of Sweden’s best horror authors for children.”
Dagens Nyheter / SWE

“Writing responsive and taking the children seriously.”
Bibliotekstjänst / SWE

Author photo

Pierre Björk. For photo rights please contact Grand Agency at jenny@grandagency.se