Translations
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from Everything I Find in You I Will Find in Myself by Malin Ekman
In Malin Ekman's literary debut, Anna, an observant and introspective first-person narrator, recalls her childhood with an impulsive single mother and younger brother.
Translated by Paul Norlen.
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from Aboveground by Mikael Berglund
An encounter between a young nursery school worker and a Sámi reindeer herder marks the start of a transformative relationship, in Mikael Berglund's suggestive, starkly poetic third novel.
Translated by Anna McGroarty.
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from Not Your Baby by Seluah Alsaati
Seluah Alsaati's award-winning, razor-sharp YA debut explores what it means to find yourself in a destructive relationship, and how to find your way back to yourself.
Translated by Sophie Ruthven.
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from The Bleed by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck
What does it mean to feel something for real? In Lyra Ekström Lindbäck’s latest novel, several voices interrogate this question side by side, probing fiction, reality, and what exists in between.
Translated by Emma Olsson.
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from A little book about football, democracy and how to build a society by Niklas Rådström
In his latest book, Niklas Rådström examines what football might have to teach us about cooperation, justice and peaceful coexistence despite conditions of intense competition.
Translated by Tom Buckle.
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from The Red Room by Kaj Korkea-aho
Kaj Korkea-aho’s fifth novel Röda rummet is a charged, sensitively hewn text that explores power dynamics and desire, and the extent to which we are prepared to go to realise our own, and others’, fantasies.
Translated by Bradley Harmon.
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from Health & Care by Olivia Bergdahl
In her latest book, spoken-word poet Olivia Bergdahl explores what it means to be cast into the uncertainty of a cancer diagnosis while pregnant, and to survive.
Translated by Linda Schenck.
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from Children of the Holocaust by Margit Silberstein
Swedish journalist and writer Margit Silberstein tells the story of her parents’ escape from the Holocaust, interwoven with her own experience of navigating her Jewish heritage while growing up in postwar Sweden.
Translated by Karin Filipsson.
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Europe by Olivia Bergdahl
Olivia Bergdahl's spoken-word poem Europa is a searing interrogation of the concept and legacy of 'Europeanness'.
Translated by Linda Schenck.
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from Bread and Milk by Karolina Ramqvist
In her essayistic memoir Bread and Milk, Swedish writer Karolina Ramqvist traces a girlhood through food, exploring how what we eat is inexorably intertwined with how we love.
Translated by Saskia Vogel.
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from She Doesn't Remember by Jonas Brun
Jonas Brun's honest and searching account of his mother’s final years with dementia transports the reader beyond a lyrical encapsulation of a mother loved, mourned and lost, conveying the vibrancy and achievements of a life well lived.
Translated by Andy Turner.
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from Best of Husbands by Gun-Britt Sundström
In her seminal novel, which has engaged and provoked readers since its publication in 1976, Gun-Britt Sundström explores the turbulent relationship between two people as they struggle to reconcile their differing needs.
Translated by Kathy Saranpa.
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from The Consultant Who Wouldn’t Swim by Mikael Bergstrand
Mikael Bergstrand takes us inside the mind of a self-satisfied consultant on the brink of a personal crisis, in his warmly humourous The Consultant who Wouldn't Swim.
Translated by Tom Buckle.
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from Bill Nilsson’s Last White Shirt by Björn Ranelid
An inconceivable family tragedy is the backdrop for Björn Ranelid’s most recent novel.
Translated by Paul Norlen.
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from Babetta by Nina Wähä
'She calls and I come. That’s how it is. That’s how it has always been. She asks me and I do as she says.' Nina Wähä returns with a suggestive novel that explores the complexities of friendship
Translated by Sarah Death.
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from The Velvet Dictatorship by Anna-Lena Laurén
Esteemed journalist Anna-Lena Laurén explores democracy in Russia in this extract taken from Sammetsdiktaturen, her latest collection of essays on Russian contemporary society.
Translated by D.E. Hurford.
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from The Wolf Run by Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Ekman returns with her first novel in ten years, an intimate and captivating tale of a man and his wife of many years, of their love for their community, their family, their dogs and for the natural world of which they are a part.
Translated by Linda Schenck.
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from The Wind out of the Darkness by Maria Wine
Arthur Allen presents a folio of ten previously untranslated poems of Maria Wine, a dexterous doyenne of Swedish literary modernism.
Translated by Arthur Allen.