Reviews

When is an autobiography a novel? The question is relevant because Enquist’s book won the 2008 August Prize – in the fiction category.

Ellen Matsson's inheritance story is part psychological drama, part minutely-observed social history, part poetry.

Robert Åsbacka's novel on the search for art in everyday life, with characters who are ordinary people appreciative of Beckett’s plays and Baroque organ music.

The second volume in Tim Davys’s planned quartet.

Theodor Kallifatides has given us an affectionate portrait of people who are not afraid of opening their hearts. It is a rare and tender novel.

The past, the sense of its presence, is scattered through the present of Eva Runefelt's poems.

Carina Burman’s witty and thoroughly researched pastiche on Victorian detective stories.

Torbjörn Flygt’s novel inspires admiration for his competence and expertise in handling a complicated narrative.

Åsa Moberg has written a remarkable biography of Nightingale that deals with the many aspects of her impressive work, not only her nursing but also her activities as a major feminist.

Together with Mankell and Nesser, Åke Edwardson represents the best in modern Swedish crime fiction.

Sven Olov Karlsson's chronicle of rural Sweden.

Lise Indahl's first novel for young readers is much more than the ghost story it seems at first to be, as the mysteries that unfold all have their explanations in the concrete world and raise serious questions about social reality in contemporary Sweden.

The reader is drawn in by Lars Norén’s warts-and-all portrayal of a sensitive but self-centred artist battling with depression and a mid-life crisis.

Mikael Timm's portrait of Ingmar Bergman through his work.

Hans Gunnarsson is one of the best chroniclers of contemporary life in Sweden.

Björn Larsson's short stories, set in the world of academia, are light-hearted, ironical Tales of the Joys of Discovery.

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

This book brings together plays, short stories and columns by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The result is linguistic experimentation at its funniest.