The Nordic novel 'A Man Called Ove' surprises readers with its light-hearted charm, contrasting the typically dark Scandinavian fiction.

A friend recommended “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman as the best book she read last year. I picked the book up, put it down, picked it up…well, you get the idea.

But since he was given a copy of the popular book, Fredrick Backman's "A Man Called Ove," he opened it up and read the novel in a single night. By morning, the filmmaker found his cheeks wet with ...

A curmudgeonly old man from Sweden is busy charming book-buying Americans. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman has become a sleeper hit.. This week the novel is No. 20 on USA TODAY’s Best ...

A Man Called Otto is an American remake of the 2015 Swedish film, A Man Called Ove, which in turn is an adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name by author Fredrik Backman. Backman’s novel ...

When I picked up my next book, “A Man Called Ove,” I didn’t realize that it was also a translated novel, this time […] Facebook RSS Twitter Youtube Home ...

Director Marc Forster and screenwriter David Magee ("Finding Neverland") reunite for the American movie adaptation of Fredrik Backman's novel, "A Man Called Ove." ...

I saw the 2015 Swedish film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s incredibly funny, heartbreaking novel “A Man Called Ove” the year it came out — before I had read the book, and long before I ...

Tom Hanks stars in 'A Man Called Otto,' an adaptation of author Fredrik Backman's 2012 novel 'A Man Called Ove' ...