MÅRTEN BLOMKVIST is a cultural journalist, author and film critic. He contributes regularly to Dagens Nyheter, produces radio programs on film for Swedish Public Radio, and his writing has appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, Ord&Bild, Chaplin, Filmrutan, and many others.

Recognized as an encyclopaedic authority on Swedish cinema, Mårten served as the editor of Bonnier’s GREAT FILM GUIDE (2005). In 2011, Mårten published HIGHLY BLOODY ECCENTRIC (Norstedts), an ambitious biography of the legendary Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. He followed this in 2023 with SONGS FROM THE WELFARE STATE (Albert Bonniers Förlag), a richly illustrated biography of the pioneering Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson. The book was based on exclusive access to the director himself, exhaustive interviews with his family and former collaborators, and included never before seen documentary photographs of the director’s studio and workplace.

Mårten is currently working on an authorised biography of the world famous Swedish film director, Ruben Östlund, to be published by Albert Bonniers Förlag in 2026.

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A much-longed for retrospective on a pioneering and era-defining filmmaker

The Swedish film director Roy Andersson has created his own cinematic universe with unique imagery and drastic humor. Here is the richly illustrated story of his world: the upbringing in Gothenburg, the film school years during the politically turbulent late 1960s, the breakthrough with A Love Story, the creation of the beloved commercials and, finally, the comeback with the late feature films.