Fredrik Backman (born 2 June 1981) is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist.

He wrote A Man Called Ove (2012), Things My Son Needs to Know about the World (2012), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2013), Britt-Marie Was Here (2014), Beartown (2017), Us Against You (2018), Anxious People (2020), and The Winners (2022).

[2] The rights to his book Beartown were bought by Swedish production company, Filmlance.

After his debut novel, A Man Called Ove, was translated into English, it remained on the best seller list for 42 weeks[clarification needed].

Following the success of his first book, Atria bought the rights to his other novels and had them translated into English.