Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger, journalist, and writer. Many of his books have become bestsellers and have been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. His literary debut, A Man Called Ove, became a bestseller and was later adapted into a film of the same name.

In the spring of 2007, he started writing for Moore Magazine in Stockholm. A year and a half later, he worked as a freelancer, and in 2012, he began writing for Metro.

He describes being a writer as follows:
"I just write things. I never really had a real job before, but then I came across information saying that somewhere out there, people are willing to pay for writing about other people, and I thought, 'That must be better than working!' And it was—it really was better. Not to mention that I get paid to sit, which is great considering my interest in eating cheese."