Therese Bohman

Therese Bohman (born August 21, 1978) is a Swedish novelist and cultural journalist.

Bohman grew up in Kolmården, a town about 150 km south of Stockholm that is famous for its zoo, the Kolmården Wildlife Park. She has written that she visited the Kolmården zoo frequently as a child.

Bohman is an editor for a monthly magazine called Axess, and is also an art critic for the Swedish newspaper Expressen. In addition to her work for those publications, Bohman is a freelance writer about art, literature and fashion.

In 2010, Bohman's debut novel, Drowned, was published in Sweden and it was subsequently translated and published in France, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Drowned was recommended by Oprah's Book Club.

Bohman has stated that her favorite author is Michel Houellebecq. Bohman said that Houellebecq's male protagonists "are cynical, bitter, even misogynic, but I feel a kind of tenderness for them, and I also feel that I understand them". Bohman has also said she is a "big fan" of Karl Ove Knausgaard.

As an art critic, Bohman has said that her artistic interests are similar to those of Kristina, the protagonist of her novel Eventide, in that she prefers nineteenth century, decadent and fin de siècle art, and is especially interested in how women are depicted in such works:

It is such a fascinating period of history with big changes in society and culture: Darwin's theories on evolution changed the way people thought about themselves and about God, secularization, urbanization, the women's and labour movements, a little later Freud and his theories about the unconscious. All these things made traces in the art from the period, and they are evident in the way women were depicted.

Tara Cheesman-Olmsted reviewed Bohman's first two novels, Drowned and The Other Woman, in The Quarterly Conversation. Cheesman-Olmsted found remarkable similarities between the two works: "The books share so much in common that they might be the same novel: both explore almost identical situations, share many of the same structural and plot devices, and the author's and translator Marlaine Delargy’s prose styles remain the same from book to book."