Nikolai Larsson is a Swedish essayist and translator whose work explores the edges where craft, ecology, and memory meet. Raised in Västerbotten and trained in literature at Lund University, he later apprenticed with a clockmaker in Ystad, a detour that shaped his enduring fascination with the human urge to domesticate time. His essays have appeared in Dagens Nyheter, Granta Scandinavia, and Ord & Bild, and his reporting on coastal erosion in Skåne earned him the Publicistklubben's Culture Prize in 2019.
Larsson is the author of Sea of Bearings (2017), a collection of coastal vignettes, and The Silence of Pendulums (2020), a short treatise on timekeeping and attention. In 2022 he received a residency at Baltic Art Center on Gotland to study historical glass and shoreline geomorphology. He lives in Malmö with his partner and an elderly rescue spaniel, volunteers with wildlife rehabilitators in Skåne, and divides his days between a desk, a workbench strewn with brass filings, and long walks along the dunes at Sandhammaren.
