Axel Thormählen was born in Northern Germany just after the end of World War II. A trained bookseller, he has lived in a village in the south of Sweden for most of his life but still writes in German. Thormählen has published four novels and two collections of short stories in German and Swedish. A Happy Man and Other Stories or/oder Der Glückliche und andere Erzählungen, a bilingual collection of his short stories, was published by Les Figues.