Malte Persson

The playfulness thinly veils a more serious message – the lack of status afforded to education and learning in modern society.

Inspired by classic stories and computer adventure games.

In an expansive collection of poetry dealing explicitly with climate change and COVID-19, Malte Persson explores the meaning of time of and beyond humanity. Annihilation, ranging in scope from single poems to a 60-page epic, uses rhyme to impose a sense of order in an increasingly disordered world.

Poems reworking the literary history of the sonnet from Shakespeare to Auden and beyond, echoing with intertextual references to other underworld travellers.

The protagonist of Malte Persson's historical novel, like a more solemn and scientifically-inclined Mrs. Dalloway, is surrounded by interesting individuals with stories of their own.

A curated list of thought-provoking recent poetry collections, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

A curated list of recent highlights in picture books and chapter books for young readers, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.