Evin Ahmad, a Swedish-Kurdish actress and writer has quickly become one of Sweden’s most talented and sought-after young talents. Ahmad has been nominated twice for the Guldbagge Awards (in 2018 for Beyond Dreams [+lire aussi :
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fiche série], adapted from best-selling author Jens Lapidus' Stockholm Noir crime trilogy. Ahmad is also known for starring in three seasons of the Danish post-apocalyptic Netflix series The Rain and in the Netflix Swedish crime drama series Quicksand [+lire aussi :
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fiche série]. Her film debut came in 2007 with an adaptation of Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s novel One Eye Red [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], Tsunami and The Restaurant. In 2017, Ahmad's first novel, One Day I Will Build a Castle of Money, was published. The novel discusses the inequality in Sweden between the suburbs and the inner city and has been described as “a brilliantly written and stylistically perfect debut about power and class, guilt and legacy.”

Now selected for EFP's 2022 Shooting Stars, she talks to us.