Stig Olsson

Ola Larsmo believes that the novel can be an effective vehicle for tackling painful conflicts, cover-ups and scandals in ‘the recent past.’ His own contribution to the genre is about misogyny and prostitution seen through the eyes of a physician in nineteenth-century Uppsala.

Has Daniel Sjölin produced 'the world’s last novel'?

Tim Davys’s first book is about Mafia pressure on soft toys.

Theodor Kallifatides has produced a novel that is more than an update of the Hercules story.

This historical novel from Carina Burman concerns the doings of a group of Swedes in Rome.

“On offer here is the shameful ingredient that once made great literature read: entertainment”, says Horace Engdahl, the Permanent Secretary of The Swedish Academy, about Östergren’s fiction in a quote on the dust jacket.

This long, long story alludes to five letters of the Roman author Ovid to his “brother Quintus”.