Andrev Walden in a black shirt, with the cover of the book Bloody Awful in Different Ways and the red logo featuring a white book for Mau Reads.

Join a book club and meet author Andrev Walden

MaU Reads is a book club for students at Malmö University. This fall, we will read Bloody Awful in Different Ways, a novel by Swedish author Andrev Walden. This book club is held in English.

The book club meets three times during the autumn to discuss various issues and themes in the book. As a participant, you’ll receive a free copy of the book and Swedish fika will be provided during the meetings. The book club ends with an author talk with Andrev Walden where the audience and especially you students get the chance to ask your questions to the author.

The book club is voluntary and is held outside regular class hours. Limited number of places, first come first served. To take part in MaU Reads, you must be enrolled at Malmö University for the autumn term 2026.

Registration opens here on 10 August.

 

About the book and the author

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.

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.

Important dates

  • 10 August – registration opens
  • 6 September – Last day to register
  • 14 September – Kick-off, participants receive the book and meet their group and book club leader
  • 28 September – Meeting in each book club group
  • 12 October – Meeting in each book club group
  • 19 October – Author’s talk with Andrev Walden

All book club meetings is held 17.15 – 18.15