Translations

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

'A highly original fantasy novel for young people ... teeming with goblins, sprites, kelpies, pixies and sorceresses.'
Translated by Agnes Broomé

The title refers to the unrealistic notion of business as usual in 1938, as the world heads inexorably towards crisis and conflict.
Translated by Sarah Death

A Nordic bestseller, set in a Lutheran island community in the 1940s.
Translated by Thomas Teal