Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii

Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii is written by the award-winning journalist Måns Mosesson, who, through interviews with Tim’s family, friends and colleagues in the music business, has intimately gotten to know the star producer. The book paints an honest picture of Tim and his search in life, not shying from the difficulties that he struggled with.

“Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music took over the world. But Tim Bergling was also an introverted and fragile young man who was forced to grow up at an inhumanly fast pace. After a series of emergencies resulting in hospital stays, he stopped touring in the summer of 2016. Barely two years later, he took his own life at the age of twenty-eight.

Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii is written by the award-winning journalist Måns Mosesson, who, through interviews with Tim’s family, friends and colleagues in the music business, has intimately gotten to know the star producer. The book paints an honest picture of Tim and his search in life, not shying from the difficulties that he struggled with.

It’s almost impossible to grasp how big an impact Tim Bergling had, both on the music industry at large and on his fans all over the world. The author, Måns Mosesson, has travelled in Tim’s footsteps across the globe, from the streets of his childhood in Stockholm, to Miami, Ibiza and Los Angeles, in order to provide an in-depth and multifaceted picture of Tim’s life and works.

Måns Mosesson is an award-winning investigative journalist with a background as a documentary producer and in-depth reporter.

Avicii AB’s net proceeds from Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii will be donated in full to the Tim Bergling Foundation, in order to support the foundation’s cause: the prevention of mental health issues and suicide.” (from publisher’s website)

The Luminous Darkness – The Theatre of Jon Fosse by Leif Zern, translated by Ann Henning Jocelyn

Jon Fosse’s plays have been produced in countless venues all over the world.

They have been translated into dozens of languages, winning awards, inspiring critical adulation, and intriguing and inspiring theatre goers all over the world. In this book, translated by Ann Henning Jocelyn, herself a bi-lingual playwright, Leif Zern,  long-term the drama critic of the Dagens Nyheter, gives an in-depth analysis of Fosse’s work.