Sno

Arresting facts and extraordinary insights. Sverker Sörlin is a scholar and writer at the height of his creative powers. – Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Ice
An eclectic meditation. * Financial Times: Best Books on the Environment *
The frozen landscape has been central to both our evolution as a species and our cultural history, and yet we face an uncertain, warming future. Part a love letter to snow, part a goodbye Snö is extraordinary. – Sally Coulthard - Author of ’The Secret World of Twilight: A Natural History of Dusk & Dawn’
Amazing anecdotes … Snö is for anybody who ever felt sadness when faced with melting snow, either globally or in their own garden … Thrilling and moving. * Nature *
Snö is full of character, as condensed with detail as firn (compacted, heavy, old snow) and as beautifully constructed as a snowflake. – Annie Worsley * Times Literary Supplement *

Sverker Sörlin is an author, historian, and science communicator. He is currently Professor of Environmental History at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Throughout his career, he has worked with universities and institutes in Berkeley, Princeton, Cambridge, Vancouver, Cape Town, Oslo, and others.

As a public intellectual, Sörlin is a defining voice in Swedish public affairs, contributing through his writing, broadcasting, and as a science policy advisor to the Swedish government.

His more than forty books encompass bestselling literary non-fiction, biographies, academic works, journalism, and personal essays. His diverse subject matter ranges from climate change, the Anthropocene, and Charles Darwin to gout, popular education, and cross-country skiing.

In 2004, he received the August Award for Non-fiction, Sweden’s pre-eminent literary award. In 2024, he was awarded the Inge Jonsson Prize by ‘The Nine Foundation’ for outstanding non-fiction.

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