MARTINA HAAG

 
 

Martina Haag, is a true multi talent working as an author, scriptwriter, screenwriter, director and actor. Her latest movie ”Little did I know” won the prestigious prize for best Film, at the Television Festival in Monte Carlo in June 2024. The movie which is based on two of her books; ”Det är något som inte stämmer” and ”Livet går så fort. Och så långsamt” is her debut as a director and the script is written by her and Peter Arrhenius.

Previously Martina has written “Glada hälsningar från Missångerträsk” together with screenwriter Vasa and “Underbar och älskad av alla” together with Måns Herngren.

Martina is currently working on several drama projects – for both film and stage and a new book project soon to be announced. 



Photo: Maria Östlin

Agent Moa Alfvén

 
 
 

FROM NOW ON

PUBLISHED PIRATFÖRLAGET 2023
GENRE FEEL GOOD
PAGES 126


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Malin and Tanja meet at a New Year's Eve party and make a pact. Within a year, they will fulfil every dream they have ever had. Nothing is too embarrassing, scary or difficult. They embark on a journey that will change them forever.

From Now On is a story about being in the middle of life and realising it won't last forever. When will you become the person you are meant to be? When will you try all the adventures you have longed for, but not dared to do? Flying over the Grand Canyon, seeing the end of the Great Wall of China or kissing a stranger at the top of the Eiffel Tower? And at some point in your life you have to set fire to that Christmas tree in Gävle.

It's also a story about how real friendship can be found in the most unexpected places. That it is extremely difficult to be human sometimes, but that there is a new life to live out there - if you are brave enough to live it.

 
 
 

LIFE GOES BY SO FAST. AND SO SLOWLY

PUBLISHED PIRATFÖRLAGET, 2017
GENRE NOVEL
PAGES 113

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More than thirty years have passed, but I can still take a class photo from high school and in less than a minute rank all the classmates, in order of coolness. It's as simple as listing every bloke's exact place in the hierarchy. You had to defend your position, to constantly strive upwards, but if you did the wrong thing, or wore the wrong clothes, or talked to the wrong person, you could suddenly just fall helplessly down the ranks and end up among the embarrassed or bullied or just be one of those people nobody talked to.

That time. That schoolyard. That was your whole universe. With its own rules and laws. A whole kingdom, with no adults at all.

Life goes so fast. And so slowly. is a novel about how you are formed as a person, about those events in life that determine who you become.

SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT

PUBLISHED PIRATFÖRLAGET, 2015
GENRE NOVEL
PAGES 141

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Latvia Latvijas mediji
Norwegian Juritzen forlag
finnish

You hear about what happens to others. You feel sorry for them. And you know, deep down, that it will never happen to you. But you have no idea.

This is a novel about survival. About the meaning of a red-coloured jacket. About tame wolverines with flamethrowers. About a bottomless mountain lake, where no one is allowed to go, and about how you get up, even though you are absolutely sure that you can't take it anymore. Something's Not Right quickly became one of the most talked about books when it was published 2017. And the success has continued. The pocket edition has been number one on the paperback charts and the book has sold more than a quarter of a million copies in total.

The book was named Book of the Year by Bonniers Bokklubbar, following a vote among readers. The honourable prize was awarded during the Göteborg Book Fair 2016.

 

REVIEWS

‘An unusually strong divorce story ... Martina Haag manages to describe the divorce in such a way that even those of us who have never experienced anything like it become deeply involved.’

Dagens Nyheter

‘Martina Haag has always written well in a kind of light, warm and humorous chick-lit style. Now, when she allows herself to let out sadness and pain, she shows that she has the potential to write a different and perhaps more urgent literature.’

Vi Läser

‘With the strength of the classic redemption novel to recognise how great love was and how it feels to lose it.

SVT Kulturnyheterna

‘But in the parts that depict the game between the spouses and Petra's total loneliness in that she still wants to be with him - anyway - genres don't matter. There it is just skinless and poignant, then it is just a book and an author who succeeds in what many writers struggle to do: to touch.’

SR Kulturnytt