Elfgren, Sara Bergmark
Entry updated 20 April 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1980- ) Swedish author who collaborated with Mats Strandberg on the Fantasy Engelfors Trilogy opening with Cirkeln (2011; trans Per Carlsson as The Circle 2012). The eighteen-year-old protagonist of the powerful standalone Grim (2021; trans Judith Kiros 2022) is haunted by dreams of his father's death-metal band partner Grim, who died in a second storyline set thirty years in the past; there are supernatural elements which may be read as metaphors for mental illness and poisoned Memory. [DRL]
Sara Bergmark Elfgren
born Stockholm, Sweden: 13 March 1980
works (selected)
series
Engelfors Trilogy
- Cirkeln (Stockholm, Sweden: Rabén and Sjögren, 2011) with Mats Strandberg [Engelfors Trilogy: hb/]
- The Circle (London: Arrow Hammer, 2012) with Mats Strandberg [trans by Per Carlsson of the above: Engelfors Trilogy: hb/]
- Eld (Stockholm, Sweden: Rabén and Sjögren, 2012) with Mats Strandberg [Engelfors Trilogy: hb/]
- Fire (London: Arrow Hammer, 2014) with Mats Strandberg [trans by Anna Paterson of the above: Engelfors Trilogy: hb/]
- Nyckeln (Stockholm, Sweden: Rabén and Sjögren, 2013) with Mats Strandberg [Engelfors Trilogy: hb/]
- The Key (London: Arrow Hammer, 2015) with Mats Strandberg [trans by Per Carlsson of the above: Engelfors Trilogy: hb/]
individual titles
- Grim (Stockholm, Sweden: Rabén and Sjögren, 2021) [hb/]
- Grim (New York: Arctis Books, 2022) as Sara B Elfgren [trans by Judith Kiros of the above: hb/]
links
previous versions of this entry