John Ajvide Lindqvist (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles John Ajvide Lindqvist (Swedish pronunciation: born 2 December 1968 in Blackeberg, Sweden) is a Swedish writer, mostly of horror novels and short stories. Ajvide Lindqvist grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg. His debut novel Let the Right One In (Lat den ratte komma in) a romantic, social realistic vampire horror story published in 2004, enjoyed great success in Sweden and abroad. Handling the Undead (Hanteringen av ododa) was published in 2005 and involved the rising of the dead as zombies, referred to as the "re-living" by Swedish authorities, in the Stockholm area. In 2006, he released his third book Pappersvaggar ("Paper walls"), a collection of short stories. In 2007, his story Tindalos was published as a serial in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, and as a free audiobook available through the newspaper's website, read by the author himself. His works are published by Ordfront and have been translated into many languages, including English, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Dutch and Russian.