Ola Larsmo (b. 1957), writer and literary critic. Between 1984–1990 Larsmo was editor of BLM ('Bonniers Literary Magazine'). Today he writes literary criticism in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Ola Larsmo has published some fifteen books, alone and in collaboration with others, mainly novels, but also essays on contemporary Irish and Swedish literature and on the subject of the Internet and democracy. His latest novel is En glänta i skogen ('A Glen in the Forest', 2004). In the fall of 2007 it will be followed by Djävulssonaten ('The Devil's Sonata'), a historical essay on antisemitism in Sweden during World War II.