
Emerging Voices in Swedish Literature: Hanna Johansson and Quynh Tran in conversation with Kira Josefsson
Live online panel and Q&A (in English), Wednesday 25 May, 17:00 BST
Join Swedish Book Review on Wednesday 25 May for an in-depth conversation with rising talents in Swedish literature Hanna Johansson and Quynh Tran, chaired by writer, editor and literary translator Kira Josefsson.
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from The Wind out of the Darkness by Maria Wine
Arthur Allen presents a folio of ten previously untranslated poems of Maria Wine, a dexterous doyenne of Swedish literary modernism.
Translated by Arthur Allen.
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from The Velvet Dictatorship by Anna-Lena Laurén
Esteemed journalist Anna-Lena Laurén explores democracy in Russia, in this extract taken from The Velvet Dictatorship, her latest collection of essays on Russian contemporary society.
Translated by D.E. Hurford.
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from The Wolf Run by Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Ekman returns with her first novel in ten years, an intimate and captivating tale of a man and his wife of many years, of their love for their community, their family, their dogs and for the natural world of which they are a part.
Translated by Linda Schenck.
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from The Consultant Who Wouldn’t Swim by Mikael Bergstrand
Mikael Bergstrand takes us inside the mind of a self-satisfied consultant on the brink of a personal crisis, in his warmly humourous The Consultant who Wouldn't Swim.
Translated by Tom Buckle.
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from Bill Nilsson’s Last White Shirt by Björn Ranelid
An inconceivable family tragedy is the backdrop for Björn Ranelid’s most recent novel.
Translated by Paul Norlen.
Latest features
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Stepping into Self-Translation
Anna Maria Hellberg Moberg investigates the phenomenon of self-translation, its advantages and pitfalls.
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One Day, Some Life: a day in the life of a subtitler
Alexander Keiller discusses the ever-changing shape of the subtitling industry.
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‘You don’t believe in war. Where in the past four decades have you seen reason prevail?’
In this recent column published on the eve of war, Anna-Lena Laurén explores the crisis in Ukraine through the prism of her own family history.
Translated by D.E. Hurford.

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Den svarta månens år
‘The absurd is a reality, he thought, forming a snowball between his hands, there’s no need to twist the text to find it, it’s there all the time.’ Year of the Black Moon, a delightful but troubling existential detective novel, follows a disillusioned scholar on an epic quest for clues and meaning when his normal life is derailed by concussion.
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Skugga och svalka
An unconventionally told story of childhood in which photography and aesthetics play a major part, Shade and Breeze is an elusive but absorbing debut novel.
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Gryning. Falsk.
Fine art meets organised crime in Dawn. False., a gripping tale focusing on two female artists.
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Inte din baby
In Seluah Alsaati’s Not Your Baby we meet Samira: star football player and burgeoning rapper, perhaps the next Cardi B. She knows who her friends are, and what she wants from a guy – three simple demands, nothing complicated. Then she meets Nabil, and her whole world is turned upside down ... and not totally for the better.
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Hemtjänstmaffian
An account of a remarkable court case against the most unlikely of criminal gangs – private home care providers – is followed by well-informed commentary, case histories and interviews in The Home Care Mafia. Finally, a piece of journalistic dynamite: a unique list, naming and shaming assorted provider organisations and local authorities.
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Vit melankoli: En analys av en nation i kris
White Melancholy: An Analysis of a Nation in Crisis takes a timely look at Sweden’s shift from ethnic homogeneity to the more diverse society we see today.

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