Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

'A shot of serotonin in book form'Mail on Sunday'Totally joyful'The Times'A feel-good read' iPaper Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: 'A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times'Imaginative, laugh-out-loud … a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Telegraph'Scandi-crime's signature darkness is here dispelled by Allan Karlsson, the eponymous centenarian, who with unlikely sprightliness hops out of the window of his old people's home one afternoon … Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian

Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

'A shot of serotonin in book form'Mail on Sunday'Totally joyful'The Times'A feel-good read' iPaper Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: 'A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times'Imaginative, laugh-out-loud … a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Telegraph'Scandi-crime's signature darkness is here dispelled by Allan Karlsson, the eponymous centenarian, who with unlikely sprightliness hops out of the window of his old people's home one afternoon … Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian