Jenny J\u00e4gerfeld was born in Sk\u00e4rblacka, Sweden in 1974. Her studies included Philosophy and Psychology. Today she heads a psychological practice in Stockholm and works as a journalist and editor for magazines and nonfiction books. In Stockholm\u2019s House of Culture, she organizes the even series \u00bbPsychologists Read Books\u00ab, since 2013 supplemented by the program \u00bbPsychologists go to the Theater\u00ab.<\/p>\n
In 2006, J\u00e4gerfeld had her literary debut with the novel \u00bbH\u00e5l i huvudet\u00ab (tr. A hole in the head), the story of 20-year-old Minou: one day when she comes home, her boyfriend Isaac has broken up with her via audiocassette because he knows she wouldn\u2019t let him go otherwise. Confused and unhappy, Minou travels to Spain to get over not only the impersonal style of the end of their relationship, but also Isaac entirely. Swedish critics praised the novel\u2019s successful balance between tragic and (unexpected) humor, as well as its drastic and touching, but always precise descriptions of the phases in the protagonist\u2019s emotional rollercoaster ride. The young people\u2019s novel \u00bbH\u00e4r ligger jag och bl\u00f6der\u00ab (Eng. \u00bbMe on the Floor, Bleeding\u00ab, 2013), followed in 2010; the author recommends it also for adults. It won the August Prize for Best Youth Novel in 2010 and the Lynx of the Month Prize for August 2014, which is sponsored by the newspaper \u00bbDie Zeit\u00ab and Radio Bremen. This is story of Maja, who cuts of the tip of her thumb with a jigsaw and, after this accident, begins to question her own identity. Does she suffer from Asperger\u2019s Syndrome like her mother, and is that how she came to injure herself? Is this disease also the reason she can\u2019t imagine that a cool guy like Justin could fall in love with her? In a mixture of love story and psychological thriller, written in a vibrant, contemporary language and with often biting humor, J\u00e4gerfeld sketches the ups and downs of first love and the difficulties of growing up. After the author took part in the collective short story anthology \u00bbAvst\u00e5ndet mellan\u00ab (2012; tr. The distance between), in the same year an erotic story was published in the anthology \u00bbHet\u00ab (tr. Hot; J\u00e4gerfeld\u2019s story is also available as an e-book titled \u00bbParis Surprise\u00ab). Her third novel, \u00bbJag \u00e4r ju s\u00e5 j\u00e4vla easy going\u00ab (tr. I am just soooo easy-going) appeared in 2013. The Swedish newspaper \u00bbG\u00f6teborgs\u00ab wrote that the explanation given by the August Prize jury also applies to this story of the hyperactive 18-year-old Johanna, who describes her surroundings in drastic language: that J\u00e4gerfeld has presented a psychological portrait whose expression is credible.<\/p>\n
Jenny J\u00e4gerfeld lives in Stockholm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[519],"jct-ilb-years":[609],"class_list":["post-40055","authors","type-authors","status-publish","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-sweden","jct-ilb-years-2015-en"],"yoast_head":"\n