2007:2

Susanna Alakoski’s emotionally powerful account, which won the Best Novel category of the August Prize in 2006, gives gut-wrenching insight into the life of the twelve-year-old daughter of alcoholics.

Jesper Bengtsson paints a rich and well-balanced picture of Myanmar.

Kerstin Ekman’s collection of essays is an adventurous read through literal and literary forests.

Kjell Espmark's fifteen stories (or quasi-letters) form a chain of psychiatric case-studies.

The facts in Bengt Jangfeldt’s biography of Vladimir Majakovsky are remarkable: until this book came along we never actually had them.

P.C. Jersild's memoirs take us through his medical training and his subsequent career.

Kjell Johansson's second, free-standing part of a novel trilogy about a working class family.

The last part of Kjell Johansson’s trilogy about Sweden’s lumpenproletariat during the construction of the welfare state.

The second novel by Emma Juslin, a young Finland-Swedish author.

Niklas Rådström's intriguing novel takes a sideways look at the visit of Hans Christian Andersen in 1857 to the home of Charles Dickens.

Anne Swärd’s second novel is a disturbing account of a family blown apart, trying after 20 years to find each other (or perhaps avoid doing so).

This anthology is one of several books published to mark the centenary of Astrid Lindgren’s birth in November 1907, focusing on her role as one of Sweden’s foremost public campaigners.