Translations

Delving into themes of motherhood and hope in a troubling age, She’ll Be Named Minou is a thought-provoking piece on life and death, and the world that future generations will come to inherit.
Translated by Robert Lyons.

Written by one of Sweden’s foremost playwrights and an acclaimed poet making her dramatic debut, King Mother interrogates the many facets of familial love, and what happens to them in the absence of memory.
Translated by Anna McGroarty.

A regular feature on Helsinki's theatre scene, Bengt Ahlfors weaves the story of an entire life into this gentle, delicately crafted monologue on one elderly man’s unconventional search for connection.
Translated by Henning Koch.

An ingeniously crafted comedy that plays out like a thriller, Alejandro Leiva Wenger's masterful play explores loss, the malleability of memory and the narratives we tell ourselves about those we love.
Translated by May-Brit Akerholt.

Taking up the drama where Euripides' Medea ends, Farrokhzad places her protagonist in a poetic dialogue with a personified Morality, as she grapples with the import of what she has done.
Translated by Jennifer Hayashida.

Based on the accounts of dozens of young people originally from Afghanistan, Kabul Sthlm Paris is a polyphonic, multi-media piece of documentary theatre that shines a light on the disorienting and at times dehumanising asylum process.
Adapted and translated by Johanna Larsson.

Drawn in a style inspired by manga but with a twisted and expressionistic flair, Cecilia Vårhed's eagerly anticipated debut Fattigt skryt is a trippy saga about broken love, class, friendship and the quest to land on one’s feet.
Translated by Corinne Platten.

Magnus Florin's latest novel plays out during the philosopher René Descartes’ last journey, a month-long voyage from Holland to Stockholm in the autumn of 1649.
Translated by Harry D. Watson.

In her explosive second poetry collection, Aya Kanbar offers a heady, romantic and often dark exploration of love, loneliness, destruction and the search for identity.
Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel.

In his debut novel, which won the 2023 Borås Tidning's Debut Prize, Yvesand has perfectly captured the dreaminess not only of bright, long summers but also the voice and energy of a thirteen-year-old.
Translated by Sophie Ruthven.

One of the most prominent voices in twentieth and twenty-first century Swedish literature, Kerstin Ekman enters into dialogue with her own literary heroes, detailing the works that have influenced her own reading and writing life.
Translated by Linda Schenck.

Lisa Röstlund, an experienced, award-winning journalist, has spent years investigating concerns about modern forest management. The many lines of thought and inquiry in her largest, most complicated, and politically charged story all come together in Forestland.
Translated by Anna Paterson.

In this short story, a disagreement between a clergyman and his wife in a rural parish serves as a prelude to an incisive exploration of the clashes that inevitably occur between tradition and innovation, faith, superstition and reason.
Translated by Sarah Death.

Hannah Lutz's second novel is an uncompromising, full-bodied portrait of a complex woman who has reclaimed her life after living with death.
Translated by Andy Turner.

Coloured by magical realism, Giraffe Island is a tale of longing to be part of a family, to find one’s place in the world, and to be loved as one is.
Translated by Julia Marshall.

The conditions that inspired Finnish emigrants to search for a better life, predominantly from agricultural Ostrobothnia, find clear-eyed, non-sentimental expression in Ann-Luise Bertell’s Turn My Heart Towards Home.
Translated by Kathy Saranpa.

Robert Åsbacka uses gentle humour to satirise elements of contemporary society and the increasing commercialisation of all aspects of life, even under a Social Democratic government.
Translated by Ruth Urbom.

Composed of short poetic fragments, Emma Ahlgren's precise, multifaceted and at times dark second collection of poetry explores a young woman’s life, and the many roles and states that she comes – or is made – to inhabit.
Translated by Nichola Smalley.