BLYANT was founded in 2024 by Catherine Mörk, one of Sweden's most experienced literary agents, with the ambition to set a new benchmark for what an independent agency can achieve and pay it forward. Formed by a desire to explore our own and our clients capabilities, drawing on our experience from indie scenes and DIY, we look for dynamic creative collaborations, sustainability and care in everything we do.
After failing an envisioned academic career in theoretical physics, Catherine successfully completed a degree in Cultural Studies at Stockholm's University, majoring in Literature, with German and Business Economics as minors. She started her path in the publishing industry in 2007, and worked more than thirteen years at Norstedts Agency, before founding BLYANT.
Catherine has notably represented the internationally acclaimed Millennium Series (including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson), major bestseller Ruth Kvarnström-Jones, classics as Frans
G. Bengtsson and Stig Dagerman, among others. With a keen eye for exceptional talent, broad taste in fiction throughout the genres, as well as an insatiability for art in all its forms, her aim is to share the works she's passionate about with the world.
Among her bookshelf favourites, you would find Knausgård's Morning Star series, almost all works by Annie Ernaux and George R.R. Martin, Paul Celan's poetry, as well as Jilly Cooper's Rivals.
Based in Stockholm and Paris.
Following a decade-long adventure in London involving countless dead-end jobs, a BA Hons Degree in Creative Writing and bookselling on Charing Cross Road, Sofia returned to Sweden where she joined Nordin Agency in 2007. Since then she has also worked as a literary agent at Norstedts Agency and Winje Agency.
Sofia has represented a diverse range of genres and authors through the years, including Lina Wolff, Marie Hermanson and Balsam Karam, and counts Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Kerstin Ekman's Blackwater and Marie-Hélène Lafon's Histoire du fils among her all-time favourites. She has a soft spot for accessible literary fiction and upmarket fiction with originality and verve, and is always curious to find engaging Scandinavian voices and extraordinary stories about ordinary people.
Based in Stockholm.