Andrev Walden in a black shirt and the cover of the book *Bloody Awful in Different Ways*

Meet August Prize winner Andrev Walden

Bloody Awful in Different ways is a story about growing up in the aftermath of the ’68 movement, about mums standing under the kitchen extractor fan saying, bloody men, about how love begins and ends, about a scalped hamster, but above all about men.

In a conversation with Andrev Walden and Sara Eldén Professor of Sociology at Malmö University, they explore the book and the audience can ask questions.

Everyone is welcome to MaU Reads’ author talk. The talk is free of charge and no booking is required. You don’t need to have read the book beforehand – just come along and be inspired for your future reading. This time, the author talk will be held in English.

Welcome!

About the book and the author

One Christmas in 1983, a mother lets slip a secret. A seven-year-old boy called Andrev learns that his dad isn’t his real dad. The real one lives in a country far away and has hair down to his shoulders, like an Indian, says his mum. The boy thinks it’s the best thing he’s ever heard. It feels as though he’s the boy in a book about a boy who finds out that his dad is king of a magical land and that a spirit is coming to take him there. But no spirits come – just new dads who aren’t his.

Andrev Walden is a journalist and works as a writer for Dagens Nyheter. In 2017, Walden was nominated – the first columnist ever to be so – for the Grand Journalism Prize in the Storyteller of the Year category. Bloody Awful in Different Ways is Walden’s debut novel, which won the August Prize in 2023.

Mau Reads

MaU Reads is organised by the University Library and Culture Collaboration, which promotes the intersection of art and science at Malmö University. MaU Reads offers two book clubs per semester for students, each concluding with an author talk. Everyone is welcome to attend the MaU Reads author talks. The talks are free of charge and do not require prior registration.