Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg's moving book for children echoes her award-winning adult novel, The Gravity of Love, and is gorgeously illustrated by Sara Lundberg.

In her inaugural address to the Swedish Academy on 20 December 2016, Sara Stridsberg pays homage to her predecessor, Gunnel Vallquist, and the art of translation.
Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner.

Beckomberga Hospital was once Europe’s largest mental institution.

These plays provide a genuinely compelling narrative experience in their own right.

Sara Stridsberg's novel engages in an interesting way with its source material: Nabokov's Dolores Haze (Lolita).

A curated list of recent gems in Swedish-language literary fiction, 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.

Before the war the Swedish writer Sara Stridsberg had never had any contact with her Ukrainian publisher. When Russia invaded Ukraine she sent an email. Here she writes about the exchange that followed, the family that was forced to flee, and the place of literature in the ongoing war.
Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner.