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Agnes Lidbeck

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Agnes Lidbeck (b. 1981) lives in Stockholm. Her debut novel Supporting Act was one of the most celebrated books of 2017 and was later awarded Borås Tidning's Debutant Prize. It also established Agnes Lidbeck as a popular columnist in Sweden's biggest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.

Lidbeck's critically acclaimed second novel The Rift was published in 2018. 
 

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At a Loss turns into a very brave attempt to understand, not forgive but understand, male domestic abuse, by depicting a man’s alienation and inadequacy in a coordinate system where the fixed points – the mother, the wife, the daughter – constantly educates, judges and forgives, but refuses to see him for who he really is. The novel is apparently the final part of a triptych about relationships, but still we have only just seen the beginning of an authorship that is stringent, nuanced and austerely poignant in a way that makes Agnes Lidbeck one of Swedish prose’s foremost contemporary voices. I can’t remember, off the top of my head, when I last read a novel that affected me so deeply, that has lingered for so long and that still, as I’m browsing my review copy, has made me so melancholic yet so excited about the prospects of literature .
Expressen
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Agnes Lidbeck has a knack for finding the most hideous, the most trivial, but also the true darkness in our modern lives /… / With her triptych Lidbeck has composed a distressingly universal work about contemporary life that will be relevant for some time to come.
Norra Skåne
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Lidbeck’s ability to write about the passing of time, days and years that blend into one, is on a par with Virginia Woolf, and her fictive universe recalls Bergman.
Upsala Nya Tidning
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Agnes Lidbeck is magnificent at finding the pressure points that expose human irrationality /… / A less gifted author would probably not manage the structure. The gaps in both plot and time between the book’s five sections could have made the story sweeping but Lidbeck achieves it splendidly. The perfect pitch, the stylistic acuity, the superb personification, the elegance of the responses that only take place through a phrase or a thought: everything suggests Lidbeck’s significance as an author and becomes a joy to read.
Nya Wermlands-Tidningen

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Stunning Reviews for Agnes Lidbeck's "At a Loss"

As we suspected, At a Loss, Agnes Lidbeck's third novel, has been hugely popular with the Swedish critics. Not only has she been compared to literary greats such as Virginia Woolf and Ingmar Bergman, but the novel has also been described as "an existential horror story" and the triptych recognised a...

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Agnes Lidbeck Scoops Prestigious Debutant Prize

Agnes Lidbeck's Supporting Act has been named the winner of Borås Tidning's Debutant Prize, which has been awarded annually since 2001 to an authorship that has the potential of becoming significant and influential. The jury advocated their choice with the following statement: "a razor-sharp n...

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