Patrik Svensson
Swedish journalist and author
Patrik Svensson is a Swedish journalist and author. His debut, The Book of Eels, won the August Prize for Swedish non-fiction in 2019.
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Born 1972 in Kvidinge parish, Kristianstad county, Sweden
About Patrik Svensson
Patrik Svensson was born in 1972 and is a Swedish journalist who writes about arts and culture for the newspaper Sydsvenskan. As a boy, he learned to fish for eel from his father, beside a stream in Sweden. The Book of Eels, published in Swedish as Ålevangeliet in 2019, was his first book. It combines a non-fiction look at the eel and its cultural history with a personal story about Svensson and his father. Publishing rights to the book were bought for 33 other languages in 2019, and it won the August Prize for Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year.