I’m Jörgen Löwenfeldt, a Stockholm-based author, journalist, and generalist*. I work at Nordiska museet, where I lead collecting projects focused on contemporary life. Previously, I served as Head of Operations at the Internet Museum, exploring Sweden’s digital cultural heritage.
As a writer, I have published the novel Ensamma tillsammans/Alone Together and the podcast short story series Människor som går iväg/People Who Walk Away.
My longest-running literary project is The Bagatelles, a collection of enigmatic short fiction in the tradition of Borges and Calvino. What began in 2009 as fragments scribbled on the backs of envelopes has since taken many forms, from blogs and exhibitions to GPS poetry.
In 2025, The Bagatelles became an English-language literary newsletter, finding readers in more than 110 countries. In 2026, it won the Best Creative Newsletter award at the Swedish Inbox Awards. The project was also featured in Compact Magazine, in an article exploring the revival of serial fiction and my experiments with reader-driven storytelling.
My interests range from Eastern European literature, strange maps, the concept of time, bizarre history, dromomania, the fern craze, parallel universes, and the world of Marcel Proust. Privately, I share my life with my family, hundreds of plants, a number that keeps growing, and a private library of several thousand books.
Photo: Mafalda Dancante
* Among my harder-to-categorise credentials: as a teenager, I started a web agency (two of the projects include a still-active IFK Norrköping website and a literary community that was slightly ahead of its time) and, at nineteen, became head of PR for Kenya’s top football club. Since then I have studied to become a psychologist, worked as a crime reporter, and served on the board of the club of my dreams, yes, the very same IFK Norrköping.