Translations

The world is very familiar with Astrid Lindgren the children's writer. Her role as an opinion former is less widely known. This speech, delivered when she collected the German Booksellers' Peace Prize in Frankfurt in 1978, appears in a new anthology focusing on Astrid Lindgren as an opinion former and campaigner.
Translated by Laurie Thompson.

This affectionate tribute to her parents was first published by Astrid Lindgren in 1975. 
Translated and abridged by Marlaine Delargy.

Rådström makes use of a "historic" meeting between Danish author Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dickens in 1858 to create a tragi-comic meditation on the nature of creativity and its fraught relation to friendship and rivalry.
Translated by Frank Perry.

Set between New York, Berlin and Stockholm, Lotta Lundberg's novel takes place as the utopian ideals of the early thirties give way to Nazism and eugenics.
Translated by Sarah Death.

Ann Granhammer's novel follows the daughter of Carl von Linné as she discovers the systems that govern life.
Translated by Julie Martin.

Johanna Thydell's acclaimed debut won the prestigious August Prize as the best Swedish children's and youth's book of 2003.
Translated by Bettina Saarela.

Karin Holmlund's debut us a clear-sighted depiction of the animal rights movement and a brave confrontation with right and wrong, loyalty and friendship.
Translated by Marlaine Delargy.

Karin Holmlund's debut us a clear-sighted depiction of the animal rights movement and a brave confrontation with right and wrong, loyalty and friendship.
Translated by Marlaine Delargy.

This remarkable book tells the true story of Xiao Rundcrantz’ path from a poverty-stricken childhood through her work as a highly successful and well-respected prosecutor in China until she moved to Sweden in 1998.
Translated by Marlaine Delargy.

The Fly Trap is an autobiographical account of one man’s emotional and intellectual journey into the heart of entomology. 
Translated by Henning Koch.

When Ella Josefsson moves to a new school with over 1600 pupils, life goes rapidly downhill. 
Translated by Sarah Death.

Maja Lundgren’s Pompeji is a colourful and engaging book filled with linguistic puns, rhythmic phrases, poetry, vibrant descriptions, and Latin words that at the same time sound like Swedish slang.
Translated by Gunilla Zedigh.

The Dandelion God is an epic family saga written in the spontaneous and compulsively readable style of a born story-teller.
Translated by Susan Beard.

Lars Sund's Colorado Avenue was published to great acclaim in 1991, with Sund being compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie. 
Translated by Laurie Thompson.

Leo, first published in 1989, is the first part in Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s trilogy chronicling the development of the shipping industry in the Åland Islands, and its effects on the lives of the islands’ inhabitants.
Translated by Neil Smith.

Drawing on the language of photography, Parland evokes the process of writing – and suggests that much of life is in our heads. Proustian moments in 1920s Prohibition Helsinki.
Translated by Dinah Cannell.

On a business trip to a fictitious Eastern European country, Sverker picks up a young prostitute, and the next morning he is found lying on the street with a broken neck.
Translated by Linda Schenck.

Laurie Thompson introduces his translation of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's An Eye Red, providing a useful insight into the unusual form of Swedish used and explaining how he went about translating non-standard and "incorrect" forms into English.
Translated by Laurie Thompson.