About

Sara B. Elfgren is an acclaimed Swedish writer, screenwriter and playwright.

An atmospheric, heady, ambiguous mystery.
Kirkus Reviews on Grim

Elfgren’s award-winning novel Grim will be published in the US by Arctis Books in June 2023.

Her and artist Karl Johnsson’s graphic novels about Vei are available in English (Insight Comcis), French (Ankama), Polish (Non Stop Comics), Czech (Nakladatelsví Zanir), Danish (Cobolt), Norwegian (Egmont) and Portuguese (Faro Editorial/Poseidon).

Even if, like me, you have a lifelong obsession with Norse myths, I promise you you’ve never seen them like this — this strange, this vivid, this real. Vei takes the whole Norse cosmos and turns it on its head and brings it back to life in one stunning masterstroke. You cannot miss it.
Lev Grossman (The Magicians) on Vei

A mythic tale that feels both faithful to its sources and enthrallingly original. Wonderful stuff!
Mike Carey (Lucifer, The Unwritten) on Vei

Sara B. Elfgren’s novel In Dreams (Norra Latin) has been translated to several languages, and was nominated to the Nordic Council’s Prize for Children and Young People’s Literature Prize 2018:

Norra Latin is a profound work in which Sara Bergmark Elfgren weaves history, myth, and magic into day-to-day realism. In engaging narrative, she gives flesh and blood to the anxiety and dreams of today’s teenagers and their struggle to stand on their own two feet instead of in the shadows of others.
Nordic Council’s Prize for Children and Young People’s Literature Prize 2018

Elfgren has cowritten the Engelsfors series with Mats Strandberg. It was been translated to 25 languages and published in over 30 countries. The first book, The Circle, has was nominated to the prestigious August award. It was made into a movie that premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015. Sara B. Elfgren co-wrote the screenplay with acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced).

The Circle ensnares you from the start, with all the epic mayhem and darkness of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and with teen characters as rich and nuanced as any reader could hope for. It’s an utterly convincing world, and a resonant one, and we find ourselves wanting to follow its heroes anywhere.
Megan Abbott (You Will Know Me, Dare Me)

Sara B. Elfgren writes everything from children's books to horror. She is currently working on several projects, on her own as well in collaboration with others.

In her spare time she enjoys reading, watching old movies, listening to music, going for walks in her hometown Stockholm, spending time with family and friends, losing herself in video games and eating tasty vegan food.

For more information, here is an interview with Sara B. Elfgren in The Comics Journal.

Sara is represented by Grand Agency.

Recent works (published internationally) and news:

Grim - novel
Deg/Dough - TV show
Vei - vol 1, Vei - vol 2- graphic novels
Ghost Giant - VR game, produced by Zoink Games.
In Dreams (Norra Latin) - novel
The Big Banquet - children’s book, co-created with illustrator Emil Maxén

Winner of the Storytel Award, category YA for Grim, 2023.
Winner of the Kristallen Award for Best TV Drama for Deg (Dough), 2022.
Member of the Swedish Academy for Children’s Books, chair no. 4, since 2020.

More in Swedish here.