KARL KOFI AHLQVIST
KARL KOFI AHLQVIST was born in 1992 and grew up on Gotland. He lives in Malmö, where he works with homeless people. He was educated at the Author's School in Copenhagen.
Ahlqvist's texts are often populated by people living in the shadows of society – homeless people, prostitutes, immigrants, people on long-term sick leave – whose voices are rarely heard in contemporary literature.
RESTLESS NIGHTS is his first novel, for which he was awarded the prestigious Katapult Prize for best fiction debut of 2023. The motivation details how he, with psychological complexity, exposes the vulnerability of people in a capitalist era in their aimless search for money, intimacy and meaning.
Agent Erik Larsson
WORKS
RESTLESS NIGHTS