2024:2
Shaping the Possibilities of Tomorrow
Ulricha Johnson, Managing Director at The Swedish Performing Arts Coalition, discusses the country's performing arts ecosystem, and some of SPAC’s many initiatives to help foster its development.
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Beyond Words
Playwright, translator and author Ann Henning Jocelyn reflects upon a career translating for the page and stage alike, including what it means to go 'beyond words' in a translation.
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from Memorial by Alejandro Leiva Wenger
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.
from She'll Be Named Minou by Ada Berger
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.
from Morality According to Medea by Athena Farrokhzad
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.
from King Mother by Jenny Tunedal and Christina Ouzounidis
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.
from Kabul Sthlm Paris by Kristian Hallberg
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.
from My Elevator Days by Bengt Ahlfors
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.
The Micro Theatre Company with an Adventurous Spirit
Foreign Affairs’ Camila França and Trine Garrett on how translation came to play an integral role in their work, and how it has shaped their practice as theatre-makers.
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Hundnätter
In Mirja Unge’s Dog Nights, a young woman returns to her home town after a long absence and finds some disturbing changes.
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När jag var snö
Cherry trees in blossom, a dead cat, the Pleiades and mourning. In When I Was Snow Ingela Strandberg’s poetry takes us on a journey through nature where death and life go hand in hand.
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Freja och huggormen
Fredrik Sonck’s Freja and the Snake is a clever picture book about the first time a child sees that her parents can make mistakes.
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Sammanflätning
How to mourn a death that was never talked about, without even a grave to visit? In Intertwining, Pia Mariana Raattamaa Visén articulates how loss affects three subsequent generations.
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Drottning Margaretas dröm
In Queen Margaret's Dream Erik Petersson brings the complexity of gaining and holding on to power in the medieval era to life through the personality of Queen Margaret, and her achievement of uniting the crowns of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 1397.
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Ödet och hoppet
In Hope and Destiny, set in a Sweden recovering from the ravages of the Black Death, a family of nobles attempts to wrest back control of their country. But fraught internal relations, coupled with the son’s unorthodox nature, end with the family divided against itself.
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Röd sol
Surrounded by heat in a tremulous world, India and Kallas answer an invitation from Kallas’ childhood best friend to leave summer in the city behind and visit her by the sea. Her garden house is an oasis, but in Red Sun nowhere is without a sense of unease.
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Den stora kreditfesten. Historien om Klarna
Klarna is a trading success of our times, and part of a truly radical change, from analogue to digital, in the way we do trade. As Jonas Malmborg points out in The Big Credit Party: nowadays, hardly any financial transactions take place without digital mediation.
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Den yttersta vildmarkens historia: Kuben
Set in a bleak dystopian future, Nils Lundkvist’s debut The History of the Wilderness: The Cube is a suspenseful chapter book that can be devoured in one or two sittings.
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Jag älskar Astrid Lindgren
Elin Lucassi's I love Astrid Lindgren is a moving graphic novel about postpartum psychosis.
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Ingen ro om natten
Karl Kofi Ahlqvist’s Restless Nights is a quietly powerful debut. The novel follows a man in his early twenties as he tries to make ends meet, flitting between part-time work and dating older women for money.
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Den store konstnären
In The Great Artist, Emmy Abrahamson and Hanna Jedvik’s first of a planned series of novels together, we meet one of the most unlikely double acts in contemporary crime fiction who end up a qualified success.
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Vargens unge
A tense account of murder and deceit in remote forest against the backdrop of the pandemic, Johanna Holmström’s Wolf Cub keeps the reader guessing until the end.
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Den siste teaterdirektören. Berättelsen om Benny Fredriksson
Johan Hilton’s ‘story’ of Benny Fredriksson’s life and death is more than an engaging memoir of great contemporary theatre manager – it is also a forensic analysis of the process by which a respectable social media campaign, part of the international #MeToo movement, became an apparatus of persecution.
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Spindelbjörken
Written in innocent yet poetic prose, Pär Hansson’s debut novel The Spider Birch reminds us of what it is like to be a child, in all its wonder and cruelty. At the same time, it leaves the reader with a disconcerting longing for closure. But maybe that is exactly what it means to be an adult: never managing to truly grasp our childhood, while never being able to let go of it either.
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Kollokillen
How do you know if the person you have feelings for feels the same about you? Johan Ehn’s children’s book 12 Days of Summer navigates the unsafe waters of a fragile and intense first love.
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Att trösta ett monster
What do you do when a very sad, but very big monster turns up at the door? In To Comfort a Monster, Jesper Cederstrand and Clara Dackenberg answer this question.
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Kulturbarn
Åsa Beckman sheds light on the traumatic experiences of children of writers in Culture Child: Growing Up in the Shadow of an Author
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När allt är över
Charlotte Al-Khalili’s When Everything Is Over is a high-suspense novel with a focus on domestic violence and an unusual heroine.
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2024:2
Featuring drama by Bengt Ahlfors, Ada Berger, Athena Farrokhzad, Kristian Hallberg, Alejandro Leiva Wenger, Christina Ouzounidis and Jenny Tunedal, and more.
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Under
Wonder, Anna Ahlund’s older middle grade novel, is about a group of friends who each receive a mysterious postcard and the wonder this brings about.
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