Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Ekman's latest collection of essays places the spotlight firmly on living landscapes and nature.
Translated by Linda Schenck

In this festive story by Kerstin Ekman, a new arrival throws Christmas preparations into disarray.
Translated by Linda Schenck.

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.

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.

Helena Forsås-Scott examines Kerstin Ekman's Grand final i skojarbranschen and looks at why novels still matter.

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

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.

The Wolf Run, the latest novel by doyenne of Swedish literature, Kerstin Ekman, resonates with a wisdom deeply rooted in nature.

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.

In this essay Anna Paterson examines the ways in which Kerstin Ekman construes crime, its origins and consequences.

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.

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...

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.