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Kerstin Ekman
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from Gubba's Field by Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Ekman's latest collection of essays places the spotlight firmly on living landscapes and nature.
Translated by Linda Schenck
TRANSLATED STORY
Red, Yellow and Green Lights Shine
In this festive story by Kerstin Ekman, a new arrival throws Christmas preparations into disarray.
Translated by Linda Schenck.
REVIEW
Tullias värld
In Tullias värld, Kerstin Ekman sets out with grace, inventiveness and often anger to shed light on the hidden lives of the women of Ancient Rome.
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from Tullia's World by Kerstin Ekman
Tullia's World is a fascinating attempt to recreate the life of Roman women, interwoven with themes ranging from feminism to pacifism to climate change.
Translated by Linda Schenck.
FEATURE
What's Wrong With Entertainment?
Helena Forsås-Scott examines Kerstin Ekman's Grand final i skojarbranschen and looks at why novels still matter.
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from Grand Finale in the Trickster's Trade by Kerstin Ekman
A leading novelist reads a manuscript threatening to reveal that the books she has published over the last 50 years have been written by a ghostwriter...
Translated by Linda Schenck
REVIEW
Grand final i skojarbranschen
The blurb speaks of ‘a hilarious play on the idea of autofiction’ – and so it is. The story about the famous writer Lillemor Troj is closely based on Kerstin Lillemor Ekman’s own literary career.
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Löpa varg
The Wolf Run, the latest novel by doyenne of Swedish literature, Kerstin Ekman, resonates with a wisdom deeply rooted in nature.
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from The Practice of Murder by Kerstin Ekman
A novel in which the main character believes himself to be the model for Hjalmar Söderberg's eponymous protagonist Doctor Glas.
Translated by Sarah Death, Anna Paterson, Linda Schenck and Rochelle Wright.
FEATURE
Kerstin Ekman and Swedish Crime
In this essay Anna Paterson examines the ways in which Kerstin Ekman construes crime, its origins and consequences.
REVIEW
Se blomman
Dedicated amateur botanists Ekman and Eriksson provide a unique mixture of curiosity and enthusiasm, science and scholarship, with the addition of an acute awareness of cultural and environmental change.
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Mordets praktik
Kerstin Ekman’s first-person narrator, a down-at-heel physician, follows up on a chance encounter with the writer Hjalmar Söderberg by providing him with information on potassium cyanide pills as an instrument of death...
LATEST TRANSLATION
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.