Translations

A novel about seeking or getting away from one's origins. Also, how to define a place and be defined by it. And whether it is wrong or even necessary to write down the tales of our dead ancestors. 

Translated by Kathy Saranpa

Göteborgssyndromet is a witty graphic novel about the willingness yet also inner conflict of a young woman letting go of everything for the sake of a fantasy of love.

Translated by Henning Koch

England, 1939. Jewish refugee, Lotte Altmann, has just married Stefan Zweig, the famous Austrian author, after years of being his secretary and lover. At the same time, a darkness draws in over Europe… 

Translated by Elinor Fahrman.

Linda Spåman's remarkable, tragi-comic descent into the inner workings of how we cope with the death of someone very close to us.  

Translated by Henning Koch

Kjellner's critically acclaimed, transnational novel that electrically wires the fractured lives of the Kurdish diaspora across haunted landscapes of flashing monitors, where traditional borders have dissolved into thin air and become meaningless…

Translated by Nichola Smalley.

Ingrid Carlberg delves into the history of political propaganda as an instrument of power from Lenin to Steve Bannon.

Translated by Ian Giles

Hanna Sahlberg's account of her doomed attempt to settle in China and become a Chinese national. 

Translated by Dr. Karin Filipsson

Monika Fagerholm – one of Finland’s most internationally acclaimed authors – returns with a hypnotic novel about growth and creativity against a background of latent violence. 
Translated by Bradley Harmon.

In this captivating and immersive biography of early twentieth-century trailblazers, Fatima Bremmer paints a collective portrait of pioneering women who challenged Sweden's journalistic status quo. 
Translated by Freddie Garforth.

Frans Wachtmeister's sophomore novel opens at a moment of crisis for its protagonist, a European resident in Tokyo who loses his job and finds his whole existence collapsing around him. 
Translated by Alex Fleming. 

In this biography of trans pioneer Eva-Lisa Bengtson, Hultin reveals the history of the Swedish LGBTQ movement through the prism of Eva-Lisa’s life, as told in a series of beautifully laconic episodes. 
Translated by Jane Davis

Maria Maunsbach’s novel, A Magical Man, is an intensely carnal and warmly humorous love story, but most of all it is a tender portrait of a man and how he has turned into the person that he is. 
Translated by Ruth Brown.

Mats Kempe’s The Literal Heaven is a poetic, complicated tale that plays with genre, allowing multiple narratives and ideas to intersect and develop together gracefully. 
Translated by B.J. Woodstein.

Elisabeth Åsbrink's debut novel places the author, her mother and grandmother in the broader political and historical context of three European cities.
Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner.

Hjalmar Söderberg, the quintessential Stockholm writer of his time, offers a lyrical account of a trip out to Djurgården, a largely wooded island and popular recreational area close to the city centre.
Translated by Tom Ellett.

In Maxim Grigoriev's widely acclaimed second novel, dreams flounder in the face of reality in a young man's first, life-altering encounter with Paris.
Translated by Nichola Smalley.

Written in the form of letters to the daughter whom he has never met, Aris Fioretos's latest novel takes us from downtown New York to Thatcher-era London, new-millennium Berlin and beyond, describing the rise and fall of an artist and musical scene. 
Translated by Tomas Tranæus.

A stylistic tour de force, Håkansson’s captivating prose and flair for memorable details draw the reader along on an immersive journey through the sights and smells of Regency London.
Translated by Fiona Graham.