Translations

Set in a small village on the Ångerman River in northern Sweden, Therése Söderlind's narrative extends over four centuries in an evocative novel imbued with a strong sense of place.
Translated by Alex Fleming

In this extract from Martin Kellerman's first novel, a disenchanted young man's life revolves around collecting his grandmother's pension and growing cannabis in her living room.
Translated by Paul Goldsman

Anni Blomqvist's series of five novels set in the Åland archipelago in the 19th century draws on events in her own family history to depict the harsh reality of life on a small, remote island.
Translated by Kate Lambert

Carl-Michael Edenborg's novel is the dark tale of a young noblewoman, the last in a line of Manichaean alchemists, whose late father ordered her to destroy the world through alchemy.
Translated by Fiona Graham.

In her YA trilogy about the teenage Turid, Elisabeth Östnäs gives us a tale of a curious, kind and fiercely intelligent young woman who finds herself questioning elements of the society where her father is king.
Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.

With his hallmark humour Torgny Lindgren explores the relationship between artists and life.
Translated by Chris Hall

Karin Boye's much-loved poem was first written in 1932.
Translated by David McDuff

In this debut novel set in the not-too-distant future Alexander Koistinen follows the work of Swedish protagonist Axel Hägerstedt in his work for the EU in Brussels.
Translated by Ian Giles

Stina Stoor's prize-winning Beasts is a masterful tale full of dialect, idiolect and a strong sense of place.
Translated by Nichola Smalley

Stig Dagerman wrote the poem 'Autumn' ten days before his death in 1954.
Translated by Laurie Thompson

Jagger Jagger was published in 2013 and was nominated for Sweden’s August Prize. Like Frida
Nilsson’s earlier children’s books Jagger Jagger has exclusion and isolation as its theme.
Translated by Kate Lambert

This novel for young adults by Cilla Naumann is set in Southern Sweden, in a coastal community that fills with city-dwellers every summer. This year it just rains and rains, until they greyness turns black...
Translated by Nicholas Smalley

In this book Astrid Trotzig takes us back to Korea, the country of her birth, and describes her feelings of ambivalence at being neither Swedish nor Korean.
Translated by Lo Nathamundi

This extract is the opening of an unsettling story from Aino Trosell’s collection of Krimineller (‘Criminelles’, or crime-fiction short stories). ‘Confused’ describes the fate of an undocumented migrant to Sweden.
Translated by Laurie Thompson

'My Friend at Gondolen' is the first of two stories by Jonas Karlsson that formed the basis for the feature film Stockholm Stories, 2013, in which he starred.
Translated by Linda Schenck

Two graphic short stories from the collection Ordningen upprätts alltid describing the methods, people and places involved in maintaining various types of order.
Introduced and translated by Ruth Urbom

Karin Boye was inspired to write this poem when she visited Linköping Cathedral in 1938.
Translated by Bruce Phenix

In this short story a group of boys with various personality disorders are sent to a remote island for an unorthodox form of therapy.
Translated by Fiona Graham