NPR, America’s National Public Radio, raises Simon Stålenhag as one of seven authors who’ve changed and elevated the sci-fi genre during the last decade, exploring the new format of bite-sized yet profound fiction.

Jason Sheehan, the journalist behind the article, goes on to write the following about Stålenhag and his debut title, Tales from the Loop:

“I love [Stålenhag] for his words. The art is cool, no doubt. But the reason I keep three of his books on my desk at all times is because no other writer […] is better at telling huge stories in small spaces than Stalenhag. Tales From The Loop worldbuilds visually, but it comes alive for me in the small vignettes written into the margins. /…/ 143 words. A complete story, beautiful and haunting. And Stalenhag does this over and over and over again, on nearly every page. His work is both grounded and fantastical, perfectly suited to our modern tastes of ideas served in appetizer-sized portions. What’s more, Loop […] upended things both by proving the viability of crowd-funding in the increasingly siloed world of traditional publishing and presaged the boom we’re now seeing in genre flash and micro fiction.”

To read the full article and list on NPR’s website, just click “read more” below.

HBO’s Beartown, based on the novel of the New York Times No. 1 bestselling author Fredrik Backman and adapted for television by Anders Weidemann, is nominated for a Swedish Emmy – a Kristallen award – for ‘Best Drama’. Also in the running for the award is Netflix’s Snabba Cash, written by Oskar Söderlund and directed by Jesper Ganslandt, both creators and show runners of the series. Jens Lapidus is the author behind the internationally bestselling novel that inspired the series, also titled Snabba Cash.

The Kristallen Gala will take place on August 27th in Stockholm, Sweden.