My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Characters in My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
11 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Granny (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry)
Elsa's seventy-seven-year-old grandmother, a retired surgeon who worked in war zones and invented the Land-of-Almost-Awake.
Elsa (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry)
A precocious, bullied seven-year-old who delivers her grandmother's apology letters to the neighbours. The book gives her no surname.
Supporting characters
Britt-Marie
The rigid, fastidious neighbour who later carries her own Backman novel, Britt-Marie Was Here.
Wolfheart
The reclusive neighbour cast as a warrior in Granny's fairy tales.
Ulrika
Elsa's mother and Granny's daughter, pregnant and long estranged from her own mother's chaos.
Alf (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry)
The perpetually cursing taxi driver in the building.
Kent (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry)
Britt-Marie's businessman husband and the building's landlord.
Maud (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry)
A relentlessly kind neighbour, married to Lennart, who answers everything with biscuits.
Lennart (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry)
Maud's husband, forever brewing coffee. Distinct from the Lennart of Backman's Anxious People.
George