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Feb 10, 2012

Strindberg, king of drama

by: Stephen Whitlock
August Strindberg’s plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world.
Oct 6, 2011

Nobel Prize Winner Tranströmer: Poetry, Music and Nature

by: Paul Eade
Tomas Tranströmer has become the first Swede since 1974 to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now 80 years old, he is widely regarded as one of the most important poets of the modern age, having long ...
Apr 26, 2011

Lars Kepler — Swedish pseudonym for crime

by: Gabriel Itkes Sznap
Lars Kepler is the latest Swedish star on the crime writer horizon. Like the works of Sjöwall/Wahlöö, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson, Kepler’s books are being widely translated and turned over to e ...
Mar 15, 2010

5 questions for Maria Ernestam

by: Judith Hammer
The novels of journalist-become-author Maria Ernestam are both serious and humorous. Sometimes compared with works by Isabel Allende, Fay Weldon, Ingrid Noll and Ruth Rendell, Ernestam's books have be ...
Jan 22, 2010

5 questions for Kerstin Ekman

by: Judith Hammer
Swedish author Kerstin Ekman started writing detective novels, then moved on to more psychological and social themes. In September 2009 she released her latest novel Mordets praktik. Sweden.se asked E ...
Sep 26, 2009

5 questions for Jan Guillou

by: Judith Hammer
At the book fair in Göteborg, Sweden.se got a quick chat with Swedish author and journalist Jan Guillou, the man behind the spy fiction novels about Carl Hamilton and the historical fiction trilogy ab ...
Aug 14, 2009

Klas Östergren's social criticism

by: Torun Börtz
Narrative zest and linguistic elegance intermix with pessimism and irony in the work of one of Sweden’s foremost storytellers, author Klas Östergren. With surgical precision, he punctures the Swedish ...
Apr 9, 2009

Stieg Larsson’s millennial success

by: David Wiles
The hype around Stieg Larsson’s Millennium book trilogy is in full swing with millions of copies sold — and the first movie adaptation a Scandinavian blockbuster. But the author, who died before he go ...
Mar 17, 2009

Selma Lagerlöf — advocate for love

by: Sven Delblanc
Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. Her very first book explored the then controversial subject of redeeming love.
Jan 23, 2009

Torgny Lindgren’s literary landscape

by: Torun Börtz
Torgny Lindgren is one of Sweden’s best-known and most admired novelists. The whole of human existence that emerges as his stories unfold makes you feel that life’s mysteries are perhaps graspable. He ...
Nov 14, 2008

Khemiri brings Sweden to new audiences

by: Tsemaye Opubor Hambraeus
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish author and playwright on the brink of international importance. His latest export is the play Invasion!, which in a hilarious yet disturbing way deals with identity, ...
Nov 9, 2007

Astrid Lindgren lives on in Swedish attitudes

by: David Wiles
Astrid Lindgren was so much more than a best-selling author of children’s books. She was also an important opinion former who helped unseat a Swedish government, influenced changes in the law and even ...
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