Translations

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

Like Frida Nilsson’s earlier children’s books, August-Prize nominated 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 Nichola 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

A chapter from the graphic-novel version of Selma Lagerlöf's En herrgårdssägen by Marcus Ivarsson.
Introduced and adapted by Ruth Urbom

From a story in a charming collection set in 1913 about Mr Corpwieth, the amateur sleuth.
Translated by Anna-Lisa and Martin Murrell

An epic historical adventure novel set in London in 1799 as a new era approaches.
Translated by Sarah Death

A short story set in South Africa. Twenty years have passed since apartheid, but the new South Africa is still characterised by segregation.
Translated by Janet Cole

Death . . . is an elegant, styish man, who cooks excellent food and enjoys an espresso.
Translated by Alice Menzies