Gabriella Hakansson, born 1968, is a Swedish novelist. Her books are renowned for their great psychological originality, complex plots, gothic sense of humour and claustrophobic mapping of the human mind.[1] They have been translated into German, Czech, Danish and Norwegian.
Hakansson is also a literary critic and essayist. Her lengthier essays concern writers such as William Beckford, Witold Gombrowicz, Mickey Spillane, Peter Weiss and Jorge Louis Borges. She features regularly in the Swedish news daily Dagens Nyheter, as well as on national public radio.
In 2008 Hakanson was Program Director for the WALTIC International Literary Conference in Stockholm. She now lives in the countryside outside of Malmoe, in the south of Sweden, and is currently working on trilogy of historical novels, set in various European countries during the 18th century.