Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea. His most recent novel is Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All.