Lydia Sandgren is the eldest of seven siblings brought up in the west of Sweden. She has studied music, philosophy, and is a practising psychologist today, living in Gothenburg. Collected Works is her debut novel; it won the highly prestigious August Prize in 2020 and has sold over 100,000 copies.
'The hottest debut of the year! If Klas Ostergren and Donna Tartt had had a love child, who grew up in Gothenburg and became an author, well, there you have Lydia Sandgren' - Akademibokhandeln 'A masterpiece, just as bold as any Donna Tartt novel, but at the same time calm and precise... Everything is captured. Tender, and terribly convincing' - Expressen 'Lydia Sandgren has written this year's most talked about - perhaps the millennium's most talked about - debut' - Dagens Nyheter 'Neat as in a perfectly composed pop song - catchy, bombastic, irresistable...What's left to say, therefore, is just that we hope that it doesn't take another ten years for Sandgren to write her next book' - Weekendavisen (Denmark) 'Lydia Sandgren is a debut author, but she writes this novel as if she's done nothing else for decades' - Svenska Dagbladet