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Swedish Bookshelf

Welcome to explore our bookshelf! Here you can read about new books, older books, prose, poetry, comics, nonfiction, drama, books for young readers and much more. We are currently building it and the shelves will hold articles, publications and book presentations.

Publications

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More Swedish Books for Young Readers

In our new publication we introduce you to exciting children’s and YA authors writing in Swedish today. They are authors who have already found readers in other languages and have the potential to reach even more. The publication is a standalone follow-up to the edition from 2020.

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Swedish Contemporary Nonfiction

What’s the latest in Swedish nonfiction? Which authors are available to international readers? What are they writing about? In this overview publication, we give you the answers.
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New Swedish Voices

Are you curious about which new voices in Swedish fiction we’re listening to right now? Then this publication is for you!
Cover, illustration picturing a butterfly and a green garden.

More Swedish Books for Young Readers

In our new publication we introduce you to exciting children’s and YA authors writing in Swedish today. They are authors who have already found readers in other languages and have the potential to reach even more. The publication is a standalone follow-up to the edition from 2020.

The cover of Swedish Contemporary Nonfiction in three copies.

Swedish Contemporary Nonfiction

What’s the latest in Swedish nonfiction? Which authors are available to international readers? What are they writing about? In this overview publication, we give you the answers.
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New Swedish Voices

Are you curious about which new voices in Swedish fiction we’re listening to right now? Then this publication is for you!
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Trends and Topics in Swedish Literature

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Themes and tendencies in contemporary Swedish drama

Swedish Literature Exchange asked theatre critic Kristina Lindquist to survey the latest themes and tendencies in contemporary Swedish drama.
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Work, Sex, Exile and Exofiction

Swedish Literature Exchange asked critic Kristina Lindquist to bring us up to date on the latest themes and tendencies in Swedish fiction. How is current fiction depicting the world of today?
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What’s up in Swedish children’s literature?

Values, concepts, themes and titles … Bleak humour, rebellious children, gender issues, winter landscapes… Are there any particular themes or motives that might be seen as characteristic of Swedish children’s and young adult literature? A reflection by Malin Nauwerck.

A theatre scene, one man and one woman are standing on a red ramp, another man looks up at them.

Themes and tendencies in contemporary Swedish drama

Swedish Literature Exchange asked theatre critic Kristina Lindquist to survey the latest themes and tendencies in contemporary Swedish drama.
Portrait of Kristina Lindquist, it's black and white and she's looking towards the camera.

Work, Sex, Exile and Exofiction

Swedish Literature Exchange asked critic Kristina Lindquist to bring us up to date on the latest themes and tendencies in Swedish fiction. How is current fiction depicting the world of today?
Image -webbbild-nyny.jpg

What’s up in Swedish children’s literature?

Values, concepts, themes and titles … Bleak humour, rebellious children, gender issues, winter landscapes… Are there any particular themes or motives that might be seen as characteristic of Swedish children’s and young adult literature? A reflection by Malin Nauwerck.

Translator's Choice

Book cover, it's an old photo of a man and a women sitting at a dinner table. He's looking at her, and she's looking towards the camera.
Translator's Choice

The House with the Two Towers

In The House with the Two Towers (Huset med de två tornen), Maciej Zaremba dissects the events of his parents’ lives and how their war experiences led to an inevitable separation. Janny Middelbeek-Oortgiesen, who translates into Dutch, recommends a book that draws a finely nuanced portrait of childhood in post-war Poland.

Book cover of "Vem tror hon att hon är": it's a photo of a women lies upside down on a couch wearing a green sweatsuit with green dots, smoking a cigarette.
Translator's Choice

Who Does Suzanne Osten Think She Is?

Who Does Suzanne Osten Think She Is? is more than a magnificent and colourful portrait of one of the greatest theatre and film directors of our time. It is a portrait of a zeitgeist. Ana Valdés, who translates into Spanish, recommends Suzanne Osten’s autobiography published in 2021.

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Translator's Choice

W by Steve Sem-Sandberg

Emöke Andersson Lipcsey, who translates into Hungarian, recommends a book based on the life of the historical figure Johann Christian Woyzeck. The author Steve Sem-Sandberg uses W.’s fate to paint a shocking, true picture of how the brutality of war can affect and warp the character of the individual.

Book cover, it's an old photo of a man and a women sitting at a dinner table. He's looking at her, and she's looking towards the camera.
Translator's Choice

The House with the Two Towers

In The House with the Two Towers (Huset med de två tornen), Maciej Zaremba dissects the events of his parents’ lives and how their war experiences led to an inevitable separation. Janny Middelbeek-Oortgiesen, who translates into Dutch, recommends a book that draws a finely nuanced portrait of childhood in post-war Poland.

Book cover of "Vem tror hon att hon är": it's a photo of a women lies upside down on a couch wearing a green sweatsuit with green dots, smoking a cigarette.
Translator's Choice

Who Does Suzanne Osten Think She Is?

Who Does Suzanne Osten Think She Is? is more than a magnificent and colourful portrait of one of the greatest theatre and film directors of our time. It is a portrait of a zeitgeist. Ana Valdés, who translates into Spanish, recommends Suzanne Osten’s autobiography published in 2021.

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Translator's Choice

W by Steve Sem-Sandberg

Emöke Andersson Lipcsey, who translates into Hungarian, recommends a book based on the life of the historical figure Johann Christian Woyzeck. The author Steve Sem-Sandberg uses W.’s fate to paint a shocking, true picture of how the brutality of war can affect and warp the character of the individual.

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Subtitled author conversations

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Ten subtitled author conversations

For the second year running, the Swedish Literature Exchange, the Gothenburg Book Fair, and the Swedish Institute are continuing our collaboration to share conversations about Swedish literature with a global audience.

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Author talks in five languages

In line with our work promoting literature in translation we are collaborating with the Gothenburg Book Fair and the Swedish Institute by making available 15 conversations with Swedish authors in five different languages.

Montage of four people whom are all smiling and are looking towards the camera.

Ten subtitled author conversations

For the second year running, the Swedish Literature Exchange, the Gothenburg Book Fair, and the Swedish Institute are continuing our collaboration to share conversations about Swedish literature with a global audience.

Three people are sitting and talking in a lounge setting.

Author talks in five languages

In line with our work promoting literature in translation we are collaborating with the Gothenburg Book Fair and the Swedish Institute by making available 15 conversations with Swedish authors in five different languages.

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