Features

As part of our series of interviews on city writing, Ukrainian poet Iryna Shuvalova discusses the importance of place to her work.

Associate Professor Uta Staiger invites us to explore a London and a Europe of the imagination, through an interactive map that charts the literary traces left by novelists, poets, visual artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists who have visited London throughout centuries.

As part of our series of interviews on city writing, Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad discusses the importance of place to her work.

As part of our series of interviews on city writing, Swedish writer Tone Schunnesson discusses the importance of place to her work.

In this insightful, wide-ranging essay, researcher Hakima Choukri explores how Ann-Helén Laestadius's captivating novel Stolen fits within a tradition of works that mobilise literature to resist socio-political and historical violence.

In this moving essay, journalist Yukiko Duke looks back on the deeply personal process of translating the works of Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami with her mother, Eiko Duke. Translated by Ian Giles.

Modern Culture’s Martin Colthorpe on bringing Swedish literature to UK and Irish festival and event stages.

We present some of the latest shortlists and winners of the prestigious literary prizes in Swedish-language fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's fiction.

Foreign Affairs’ Camila França and Trine Garrett on how translation came to play an integral role in their work, and how it has shaped their practice as theatre-makers.

Ulricha Johnson, Managing Director at The Swedish Performing Arts Coalition, discusses the country's performing arts ecosystem, and some of SPAC’s many initiatives to help foster its development.

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.

Anna Maria Hellberg Moberg delves into the changing landscape of folk tales and storytelling traditions across Sweden.

Fresh from her Bernard Shaw Prize win for her translation of Johanne Lykke Holm's Strega, Saskia Vogel speaks to SBR about her luminous translation and stretching the limits of the English language.

We present some of the latest shortlists and winners of the prestigious literary prizes in Swedish-language fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's fiction.

Researchers and critics Maria Lassén-Seger and Mia Österlund speak to Swedish Book Review about Finland-Swedish children’s literature and the art of literary criticism

We open up our archives to highlight some recent works by Finland-Swedish writers featured in SBR.

2021 saw the publication of an anthology of Finland-Swedish poetry covering 130 years. Swedish Book Review interviewed its editors to talk about their selection, as well as more broadly about poetry and publishing in Swedish in Finland.

Tom Geddes celebrates the life of Eivor Martinus, a writer, prolific translator of Swedish literature and drama, and teacher of language and literature.