- Source: Ellen Mattson
Ellen Mattson (born 22 September 1962) is a Swedish writer. Her first fictional work to be published in English translation was Snow (2005), a historical novel set in the early 18th century.
She has won several literary prizes, including the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize in 1998, the Dobloug Prize in 2009, and the Selma Lagerlöf Prize in 2011.
On 28 March 2019, the Swedish Academy elected Mattson as a new member of the academy. She was inducted in December 2019.
Selected works
Truman Capote och faktaromanen (Examensarbete vid Högskolan i Borås) 1989
Nattvandring 1992
Vägen härifrån 1994
Resenärerna 1998
Poetens liv 1999
Snö 2001 (en historisk roman som utspelar sig i tidigt 1700-tal)
Splendorville 2004
Arves hus 2005
Glädjestranden 2008
Vinterträdet 2012