Author: Daniel Sjölin
 
  
Daniel Sjölin, b. 1977, made his literary début with Oron bror (Worries Brother) in 2002, which won him Sweden’s most prestigious prize for a first work, Borås Tidning’s Award for Best Literary Debut. Two years later, the success was followed by the equally critically acclaimed novel Personliga pronomen (Personal Pronouns). Highly praised for his harrowing pictures of the society, his largely boundless fantasy and for his linguistic exploration, Daniel Sjölin outdone himself with his latest novel, Världens sista roman (The World’s last Novel), short listed for the August Prize in 2004, thereby ingeniously putting a final end to the very popular biography genre.

Daniel Sjölin is further one of Sweden’s most well-known younger cultural personalities. For seven years he hosted the literary programme Babel on Swedish Television, a post for which he was awarded the Örjan Lindeberg Prize "for making good literature accessible to a larger audience". Daniel left television in November 2011 and is currently working on a larger literary project.

 
Bibliography
2002 Oron bror
2004 Personliga pronomen
2007 Världens sista roman
"[The World's Last novel] is the kind of novel that not only offers a new perspective on reality but also a new approach to the discussion of what is literature."
- Information (DK)
"In the world's last novel, writes Daniel Sjölin, "fiction must die". But if anything is alive in this, his third book and actually entitled The World's Last Novel, it is fiction itself. It lives and thrives, plays and germinates. This guy has got what it takes."
- Kristianstadsbladet
The World's Last Novel is a boundlessly captivating and dizzying roller-coaster through consciousness and language, a desperate report on the state of things within, a brain under siege and a reckless description of the strange world in which we all live.
- Svenska Dagbladet