ULRIKA LAGERLÖF
Fiction
HEARTWOOD
PALE SOIL
CLOUDBERRY MIRE
Rights and awards
Rights
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
Ukraine
Awards and Nominations
2025 – Second place in the Book of the Year Award / Årets Bok 2025 for Cloudberry Mire
2025 – Nominated for the Swedish Storytel Awards for Cloudberry Mire
Ulrika Lagerlöf lives in Uppsala and has worked in communications within the forestry industry for the past ten years. In 2024, Cloudberry Mire, the first in the Woodland series, published and was quickly followed by Pale Soil in 2025. Both books became national bestsellers, and Cloudberry Mire was awarded second place in the reader-voted Book of the Year Awards 2025. The trilogy is sold in nine markets.
When Ulrika is not working or writing, she loves to spend time in the forest, preferably on cross-country skis. In March 2024, she participated in the Swedish long-distance ski race Vasaloppet for the fifth time.
During the summer, mountain hiking is a major interest, and for the past couple of years, Ulrika and her husband have been renovating a small cottage in southern Hälsingland during their free time.
The Woodland Series is inspired by Ulrika’s own family history, which is deeply connected to the forest. Ulrika’s great-grandfather would work away in the forest all winter, being gone from the family months at a time. Ulrika’s grandmother also worked as a cook in a forest cabin alongside the forestry workers throughout the winter, when she was young, in the early 1940s. These two things together became the inspiration for the Woodland Series, which also uses part of Ulrika’s profession within the forestry industry to form a modern day storyline.
Bibliography
2026 – Heartwood (Kärnveden), novel
2025 – Pale Soil (Blekjorden), novel
2024 – Cloudberry Mire (Hjortronmyren), novel
Author photo
Linda Broström. For photo rights please contact the photographer at info@lindisima.se