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Short biography
Nova Ling is an author, guitarist and trained conductor who grew up in Ukraine and has lived in Sweden since the early 2000s. Her books are available in six languages. Her latest novel is Landet Zeta: Krönikor från helvetet (2026), the first book in a trilogy about the war in Ukraine.
Longer biography
Nova Ling is an author, guitarist and trained conductor. She grew up in Ukraine, speaking Ukrainian and Russian, and moved to Sweden in the early 2000s.
Her debut, Konsten att lämna en psykopat (2019), is a novel based on real events about escaping a dangerous relationship. In 2020 the story became the audiobook När ingen hör, när ingen ser from Lind & Co. It was nominated for the Storytel Awards and is now available in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic and English, where it is called The Art of Leaving a Psychopath. The sequel, The Art of Hiding, followed.
She has also written the supernatural story Shinoshima and Landet Zeta: Krönikor från helvetet, the first book in a trilogy about the war in Ukraine.
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Facts
- Grew up
- Ukraine. Native languages Ukrainian and Russian.
- Lives
- Sweden, since the early 2000s
- Training
- Conductor. Classical guitar.
- Debut
- Konsten att lämna en psykopat, 2019
- Languages
- Swedish, English, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic
- Publishers
- Lind & Co and independent publishing
- Nomination
- Storytel Awards 2020 for När ingen hör, när ingen ser
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