HENRIK BROMANDER is a writer, dramatist and graphic novelist. In 2023, he published the short story collection CITIZENS, described by Svenska Dagbladet as “an archipelago of stories about an anguished society, whose inhabitants are trying to find a way between H&M and Tramadol, mink farms and climate activism, YouTube and last year’s Lasse Åberg-porcelain.”

Bromander is the author of seven novels, among others the critically acclaimed novel HIGH VOLTAGE (2019). His political thriller STAY BEHIND, published in April 2021, drew comparisons with Thomas Pynchon and John le Carré.

In addition to his novels, Bromander has worked actively in the theatre for many years and is the author of more than seven plays.

SELECTED WORKS

Medborgarna / Citizens – 2023
Skymningstid / Stay Behind – 2021
Högspänning / High Voltage – 2019
Bara en kram – 2017
Vän av ordning – 2016
Riv alla tempel – 2014

Agent William Crona

“Henrik Bromander is the most interesting writer in young contemporary literature. Everything he touches immediately acquires nerve, entertainment value, and political relevance.” – ETC

PUBLISHED wEYLER, 2023
GENRE short story collection
PAGES 300

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“Bromander deepens and nuances the image of Sweden, which is all too often and easily forgotten … His stories offer a series of test drillings in the sediment of the present and shows the way that a changing society streams through minds and bodies and makes them shiver.” – Svenska Dagbladet

“When did we give up, we who fought back, when did we surrender our expectations? Was it when we were forced to start working, when people had kids, was that when everything stopped being true? When did we forget the importance of swimming against the current, when did we start feeling it was comfortable to float in the mainstream like everybody else?”

A woman tires of the increasing sense of danger and insecurity in the company town she’s grown up in and joins a civilian vigilante group. Two junkies from Småland travel to Gothenburg to collect a debt. A mink farmer patrols the walkways between the cages, letting his flashlight run across the sleeping animals. A disillusioned man travels to the Basque Country, once the object of his dreams of freedom, but finds something else aside from the armistice.

Bromander’s CITIZENS is a short story collection tinged with nostalgia. The characters mourn a bygone time when they still could dream, when society seemed more put together, when there was still a chance to resist. His characters are people that have been pushed to the margins of society, and who now live on the edge. All of them hold ideals and hopes that have been betrayed, lost or abandoned. When we meet them in the stories they narrate, we meet them in the moments just before they fall.