Translations

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

A classic thriller set against the backdrop of the sluggish and suspicious dynamic of small-town life.
Translated by Anna Holmwood

This novel navigates the complexities of being young, female and Muslim in Finland
Translated by Nichola Smalley

An enthralling and psychologically convincing portrayal of a group of young people trying to find their place in life.
Translated by Kevin Halliwell

In this collection, the poet uses experimental language to continue her exploration of the female body as myth and metaphor.
Translated by Anna Tebelius

Three poems from this volume of selected poems, 1962-2012, demonstrating the poet's unique style of expression.
Translated by Benjamin Mier-Cruz

Helsinki's last vampire slips like a cat across the rooftops of Finland's capital, with only one wish: to die.
Translated by Sarah Death

Meditations on the texture of human experience. A selection from one of Tua Forsström's collections of poems.
Translated by David MacDuff