Kjell Johansson (Stockholm, 1941). He grew up in Midsommarkransen, an area on the outskirts of the capital that became the stage on which most of his novels develop, which he writes by hand on the sofa of his residence. After studying university, he worked as a teacher of Swedish for foreigners and taught the subject of Swedish language in the adult education program. For several years, he worked with the deed as a social worker, in hospitals, in a delivery company and in port facilities. Russian literature soon awakened its interest and in 1989 the face of Gogol (Gogols ansikte) was published. Her novel Huset vid Flon (The house near Flon) was also well received, translated into several languages ​​and was nominated for the August Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2003 he published Sjön utan namn (The Nameless Lake), following on from Huset Vine Flon. Until the autumn of 2006, with the novel Rummet under golvet (The Room Under the Ground) Kjell Johansson completed the trilogy entitled De utsatta (The unprotected). This work is autobiographical and, for its execution, Johansson had access, thanks to the genealogical researches of a distant relative, to a material that until then he did not know.