Sven Axelrad burst onto the literary scene in 2023 with his magical and quirky debut, Buried Treasure followed by God's Pocket in 2024. His third novel, The Nicotine Gospel is set to hit stores in 2025. Sven is an accountant who reads a lot, is covered in tattoos, plays the guitar, and loves his dog.

Buried Treasure has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award / longlisted for both the South African Literary and HSS awards

God's Pocket has been shortlisted for The Book Lounge Book of the Year in 2024

Sven has published short stories in New Contrast and Fragment Collective and been longlisted for the Desperate Literature Prize in Madrid.