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Featuring drama by Bengt Ahlfors, Ada Berger, Athena Farrokhzad, Kristian Hallberg, Alejandro Leiva Wenger, Christina Ouzounidis and Jenny Tunedal, and more.

 

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Beyond Words

Playwright, translator and author Ann Henning Jocelyn reflects upon a career translating for the page and stage alike, including what it means to go 'beyond words' in a translation.

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Röd sol

Surrounded by heat in a tremulous world, India and Kallas answer an invitation from Kallas’ childhood best friend to leave summer in the city behind and visit her by the sea. Her garden house is an oasis, but in Red Sun nowhere is without a sense of unease.

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Vargens unge

A tense account of murder and deceit in remote forest against the backdrop of the pandemic, Johanna Holmström’s Wolf Cub keeps the reader guessing until the end.

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Ingen ro om natten

Karl Kofi Ahlqvist’s Restless Nights is a quietly powerful debut. The novel follows a man in his early twenties as he tries to make ends meet, flitting between part-time work and dating older women for money.

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