You and You and You

Young Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises.

Per Nilsson was born in Mälmo in 1954. Today he lives in Sölvesborg with his four children. He trained as a mathematics and music teacher. For many years he worked part-time in a school and part-time as an author. Today he is a full-time author. He sees his books as letters in which he carries on conversations with young adults about life and death, about hope and belief in the future, about roles we play, the world we live in and about love. His literary strength lies in his use of new motives and unexpected ways of thinking. He has written about twenty books, many of which have won awards. Heart's Delight is the first of Mr. Nilsson's books to be published in the U.S. It won first prize in Rabén & Sjögren's 1992 awards competition for best love story, the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturepreis in 1997, and the Dutch "Silver Kiss" in 1999. Mr. Nilsson also writes the script for a family series on Swedish television.