{{Short description|Swedish author}} {{for|the Swedish footballer|Mats Strandberg (footballer)}} {{Infobox author | name = Mats Strandberg | image = Mats Strandberg at Swecon 2012.jpg | image_caption = Mats Strandberg at Swecon 2012 | birth_date = 1976 | birth_place = | birth_name = | occupation = Author and columnist | nationality = Swedish | education = | parents = | spouse = {{marriage|Johan Ehn|2015}} | children = | website = {{URL|matsstrandberg.com}} }} '''Mats Olof Erling Strandberg''' (born 1976) is a Swedish author.<ref name="raben">{{cite web|title=Mats Strandberg|url=https://rabensjogren.se/forfattare/119454-mats-strandberg |publisher=Rabén & Sjögren |accessdate=10 August 2018}}</ref>
Strandberg has been a columnist in Aftonbladet.<ref name="litteraturmagazinet">{{cite web|url=http://www.litteraturmagazinet.se/mats-strandberg |title=Mats Strandberg |publisher=Litteraturmagazinet |website=litteraturmagazinet.se |accessdate=10 August 2018}}</ref> His debut novel was ''Jaktsäsong'', published in 2006.<ref name="jakt">{{cite press release | url=https://www.metro.se/artikel/kr%C3%B6nik%C3%B6ren-mats-strandberg-romandebuterar-xr | title=Krönikören Mats Strandberg romandebuterar | date=29 June 2006 | accessdate=10 August 2018}}</ref> His young adult fantasy novel ''Cirkeln'', the first book in the ''Engelsfors'' trilogy written together with Sara Bergmark Elfgren and published in 2011, was an August Prize nominee in the youth literature category.<ref name=dn>{{cite news|title=Nominerade till Augustpriset 2011|url=http://www.dn.se/dnbok/dnbok-hem/nominerade-till-augustpriset-2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018071202/http://www.dn.se/dnbok/dnbok-hem/nominerade-till-augustpriset-2011|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 18, 2011|accessdate=23 January 2012|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|date=2011-10-17}}</ref>
Strandberg has also written horror novels. In 2015, his novel ''Färjan'', which is set on board a Baltic Sea cruiseferry, was published. It was translated into English as ''Blood Cruise'' and published in the UK by Jo Fletcher Books.<ref name="quercus">{{cite web | url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/quercus-publish-swedens-stephen-king-mats-strandberg-440966 | title=Quercus to publish 'Sweden's Stephen King' Mats Strandberg | date=30 November 2016 | accessdate=10 August 2018 | author=Cowdrey, Katherine}}</ref> ''Hemmet'', about a residential care home haunted by ghosts, was published in 2017; ''Slutet'', a preapocalyptic young adult novel about the final few weeks of life on Earth before a comet destroys all life, was released in 2018 and received very positive reviews in ''Dagens Nyheter''<ref name="dnslutet">{{cite news | url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bokrecensioner/bokrecension-mats-strandbergs-slutet-nar-slutet-kommer-med-en-snyftning-och-en-skrall/ | title=Bokrecension: Mats Strandbergs ”Slutet” – när slutet kommer med en snyftning OCH en skräll | work=Dagens Nyheter | date=16 November 2018 | access-date=4 December 2018 | author=Thente, Jonas |language=sv}}</ref> and ''SVT''.<ref name="svtslutet">{{cite news | url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/bok/mats-strandbergs-klimatangest-blev-romanen-slutet | title=Mats Strandbergs klimatångest blev romanen Slutet | work=Sveriges Television | date=16 October 2018 | accessdate=4 December 2018 | author=Hibombo, Abdul |language=sv}}</ref> ''Konferensen'', a horror novel about a corporate conference the site of a rampaging slasher, released in 2021 and was film adapted in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://swedishbookreview.org/konferensen-review|title=The Conference - Review|last=Venner|first=Catherine|date=2021|access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref>
Strandberg is married to the actor Johan Ehn.<ref name="dncirkelnsluts">{{cite news | url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bocker/cirkeln-sluts-med-blodig-skrackroman/ | title=Cirkeln sluts med blodig skräckroman | work=Dagens Nyheter | date=15 July 2015 | access-date=10 August 2018}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * ''Jaktsäsong'', 2007 * ''Bekantas bekanta'', 2008 * ''Halva liv'', 2009 * The ''Engelsfors'' trilogy (with Sara Bergmark Elfgren) ** ''Cirkeln'', 2011; published in English as ''The Circle'', 2012 ** ''Eld'', 2012; published in English as ''Fire'', 2014 ** ''Nyckeln'', 2013; published in English as ''The Key'', 2015 * ''Färjan'', 2015; published in English as ''Blood Cruise'', 2017 * ''Hemmet'', 2017; published in English as ''The Home'', 2020 * ''Slutet'', 2018; published in English as ''The End'', 2020 * ''Konferensen'', 2021 * ''Musan'', 2025
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