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Torgny Lindgren

Gustav Torgny Lindgren was a Swedish writer.
Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. He was for several years active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith.

Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with The Way of a Serpent (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget). Lindgren has been translated into more than thirty languages and was one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1991.

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Jonathan Lundberg

Journalist och författare av Sverigevänner (2019), Från världskrig till nätkrig (2021), Cicada 3301 (2025).

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Agri Ismaïl

Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan.

His debut novel Hyper will was published in January 2024.

His work has been published in The White Review, The Rumpus, Guernica, Asymptote, and The Lifted Brow amongst other places.

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Ruth Kvarnström-Jones

Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (född 1962) är född och uppvuxen i Storbritannien, men bor i Stockholm sedan 30 år tillbaka. Lika länge har hon arbetat som copywriter, med allt ifrån tryckt media till webbsidor och slogans i butiksfönster.

Vissa blir franko- eller anglofiler i tonåren. Andra, som Ruth Kvarnström-Jones, snöar in på Sverige.
– Scoutföreningen i byn hade ett utbyte med Karlstadsscouterna och jag drömde om att lära mig svenska. Därför läste jag Scandinavian Studies i London och fick bo i Sverige ett halvt år redan första läsåret. Vilken sommar! Jag la alla pengar på svenska skivor, tidningar och glass.
Framåt hösten tog hon tåget hem med alldeles för mycket bagage – bland annat en hel prinsesstårta – och kunde dessutom tala flytande svenska

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Jonathan Lundberg

Journalist och författare av Sverigevänner (2019), Från världskrig till nätkrig (2021), Cicada 3301 (2025).

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Malin Haawind

Malin Haawind romandebuterade 2021 med boken De kom från öar som tar sin början strax efter krigsslutet 1945. De kom från öar handlar om vuxenblivande och familj, om systerskap, arbete och längtan. Det är första delen i en romantrilogi som formar berättelsen om en familj i folkhemmet, från små kustsamhällen till nybyggda höghus i industristaden. Andra delen i serien, Och havet gav igen kommer i september 2022, och tredje delen, In mot stenig strand, hösten 2023.
Malin Haawind har tidigare skrivit fyra fackböcker om gräl, föräldraskap, mat och smuts. Hon är även verksam som redaktör och skrivarkursledare.

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Elin Persson

Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.

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Andreas Cervenka

Andreas Cervenka, född den 1 april 1974, är en svensk ekonomireporter, anställd hos Dagens industri och tidigare på Svenska Dagbladet.

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Sara Bergmark Elfgren

Sara Bergmark Elfgren (a.k.a. Sara B. Elfgren) is an award-winning Swedish writer, screenwriter and playwright. She made her debut with the YA novel The Circle (2011), which she co-wrote with Mats Strandberg. The Circle was the first part in the Engelsfors trilogy, and it has been translated into twenty-five languages.

Since her debut, Elfgren has written critically acclaimed novels, children's books, graphic novels, audio dramas, plays, screenplays and TV scripts.

She was born in Stockholm and still lives there. She has a degree in Film Studies. She enjoys reading, watching old movies, listening to music, playing video games and going for long walks. She is currently working on an opera libretto, a new novel and a children's book.

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Christoffer Carlsson

I was born, I started writing stories, I haven't died yet

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Karolina Ramqvist

Karolina Ramqvist är en svensk journalist och författare.

Ramqvist har varit chefredaktör för tidskriften Arena och kritiker i Dagens Nyheter. Hon blev allmänt känd när hon publicerade ett privat brev från Ulf Lundell i antologin Fittstim. Hon har även medverkat i tidskriften Bang. Ramqvist är gift med journalisten Fredrik Virtanen.

Karolina Ramqvist är sondotter till The Svedberg.

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Alex Schulman

Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.

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Karl Ove Knausgård

Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.

Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over.

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Martin Gelin

I'm the US Correspondent for Dagens Nyheter and the author of nine books on American politics and culture.
I have written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The New Republic, LA Review of Books and Granta.
I have also translated several works from English to Swedish.

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Mats Strandberg

Mats Strandberg is an award-winning novelist and journalist. He is a regular columnist for Sweden's biggest evening newspaper, has been named Columnist of the Year by Sweden's Newspapers and Magazines organization, and had published three previous novels, with rights sold in numerous countries.

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Lena Andersson

Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard . In the same year, the same book, won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

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Johan Hilton

Johan Hilton (née Friberg) is a Swedish journalist and author.

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Niels Fredrik Dahl

Niels Fredrik Dahl er en norsk forfatter og dramatiker.

Romanene "På vei til en venn" og "I fjor sommer" har fått god mottakelse både hos kritikere og publikum, og er oversatt til dansk, svensk, tysk og nederlandsk. "På vei til en venn" ble belønnet med Brageprisen i 2002. Dahl har også skrevet manus til flere TV-serier, blant annet Hotel Cæsar og Soria Moria. Han er gift med Linn Ullmann.

Dahl er en av Norges mest markante forfatterne og har utgitt noveller, dikt, gjendiktning og skuespill. Hans første roman "Journalisten" utkom i 1997. For romanen "På vei til en venn" (2002) ble han tildelt Brageprisen. Han ble også nominert til Kritikerprisen og P2-lytternes pris. Både denne og romanen "I fjor sommer" (2003) er oversatt til en rekke språk

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Solvej Balle

Solvej Balle er en særegen stemme i dansk litteratur. Hun var del af en gruppe hovedsageligt kvindelige forfattere, som debuterede eller slog deres navne fast i begyndelsen af 90’erne. Siden Balle debuterede i 1986 med romanen ”Lyrefugl”, har hun udgivet ganske få værker, så det var en overraskelse, da hun i 2020 annoncerede det ambitiøse og filosofiske syvbindsværk ”Om udregning af rumfang”, som hun i 2022 modtog Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris for, for de første fire bind

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Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.

In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

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John Ajvide Lindqvist

John Ajvide Lindqvist (John Erik Ajvide Lindqvist) is a Swedish author who grew up in Blackeberg, the setting for Let the Right One In . Wanting to become something awful and fantastic, he first became a conjurer, and then was a stand-up comedian for twelve years. He has also written for Swedish television.

His Let the Right One In was a bestseller in Sweden and was named Best Novel in Translation 2005 in Norway. He also is the author of Handling the Undead and Harbor .

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Carl-Johan Vallgren

He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the first novel to be translated into English. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in Stockholm.

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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters.
When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller Less than Zero (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, American Psycho (1991), was his most successful. Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that y

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Robert Shelton

Robert Shelton, born Robert Shapiro, was a music and film critic. Shelton helped to launch the career of a then-unknown 20-year-old Bob Dylan. He wrote about music for the New York Times until the end of the '60s.

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Dick Harrison

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Dick Harrison is a Swedish historian and currently a professor at Lund's University, Sweden.

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Leif G.W. Persson

Leif Gustav Willy Persson - better known as Leif GW Persson - is a Swedish criminologist and novelist. He was a professor in criminology at the Swedish National Police Board from 1992 to 2008.

He is known for his crime fiction novels and for his regular appearances as an expert commentator on notable crime cases in television and newspapers. Between 1999 and 2009 he participated as an expert commentator on the television show Efterlyst (Swedish TV program, equivalent of America's Most Wanted) on TV3. Since 2010, he is the expert commentator of Veckans Brott - roughly translated into Weekly Crimes or Crimes of the Week - on SVT.

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Johanna Bäckström Lerneby

Johanna Bäckström Lerneby är journalist och författare. Hon har mottagit Stora Journalistpriset i kategorin »Årets berättare« och nominerats till en Guldspade i klassen »Bok« för Handelsvara: Kvinna.

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K. Svensson

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Elisabeth Åsbrink

Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink is a Swedish author and journalist.

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Therese Bohman

Therese Bohman is an editor of the magazine Axess and a columnist for Expressen and Tidningen Vi, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. She lives in Sweden.

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Fanny Klang

Fanny Klang är född 1998 och har sedan 2021 arbetat på kriminalvårdsanstalter inom alla tre säkerhetsklasser på olika platser i landet, samt ett säkerhetshäkte. Idag bor hon i Solna och studerar juristprogrammet på Stockholms universitet.  Sluten anstalt är hennes debutroman.

”När jag för första gången klev in bakom anstaltsgrindarna var jag idealistisk och humanistisk. Sedan: verkligheten. Personalomsättningen skyhög, platsbristen skriande, tystnadskulturen allomfattande. Total dissonans mellan reklamkampanjernas vackra ord och denna auktoritära, desillusionerade Sveriges tredje största myndighet. Efter inlåsning promenerar jag till hållplatsen, men mina tankar är kvar på anstalten. Det jag tänker är att verksamheten går helt emot myndighet

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Andreas Cervenka

Andreas Cervenka, född den 1 april 1974, är en svensk ekonomireporter, anställd hos Dagens industri och tidigare på Svenska Dagbladet.

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Martin Gelin

I'm the US Correspondent for Dagens Nyheter and the author of nine books on American politics and culture.
I have written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The New Republic, LA Review of Books and Granta.
I have also translated several works from English to Swedish.

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Per Faxneld

Per Faxneld is Swedish Historian of Religion
he holds a ph.d. in History of Religions (obtained in 2014). his field of specialisation is Western esotericism, new religions and "alternative spirituality" (e.g. Satanism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, New Age, the sacralization of physical excercise, etc), with a particular emphasis on how they are formed in tandem with processes of modernization (especially secularization). he has also worked from a sociological perspective with questions pertainng to strategies of legitimation, religious authority and identity formation. Other interests include religion and popular culture (reflection my background in cinema studies), folk religion (e.g. editing a critical edition of a folkloristic classic), gen

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Johan Hilton

Johan Hilton (née Friberg) is a Swedish journalist and author.

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Johannes Klenell

Johannes Klenell (f. 1979) är förläggare på Galago, serieförlaget som de senaste tio åren varit ett drivhus för några av vår tids bästa samhällskritiker. Han skriver för bland annat Aftonbladet Kultur och Värmlands Folkblad.

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Nina Björk

Nina Björk is a Swedish journalist, author and feminist. She is most well known for Under det rosa täcket (Under the Pink Duvet), a feminist book written in 1996.

She is considered to be a postmodern equity feminist. In 2008 she earned her PhD degree in literary criticism at Gothenburg University with her doctorate thesis Fria själar. She is also well known as a columnist in Dagens Nyheter.

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Stig Larsson

Stig Håkan Larsson, född 20 juli 1955 i Skellefteå i Västerbottens län, är en svensk poet, dramatiker, romanförfattare, filmregissör samt kritiker. Han har varit medlem av redaktionen för tidskriften Kris och är bland annat känd för romanerna Autisterna och Nyår, pjäsen VD och filmen Kaninmannen.

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Joakim Palmkvist

After studies in political science at Lund University and international journalism in London, he started working on the Barometer as a reporter in the summer of 1995 .

In 1997 he was employed at Sydsvenska Dagbladet where he is still working. In 2015 and 2016 Palmkvist worked with the radio program I Lagens Naam for Sveriges Radio P1 .

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Katarina Barrling

Katarina Barrling är docent i Statskunskap vid Uppsala universitet, och verksam som fri skribent och konsult. Hon har bland annat studerat hur människor påverkas av kultur, i organisationer, i politik och i samhället i stort. Det temat skrev hon om tillsammans med Cecilia Garme i boken ”Saknad. På spaning efter landet inom oss” (2022). Hon har också medverkat som kommentator i radio och tv, och som krönikör i bland annat Svenska Dagbladet och Axess Magasin.

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Ingvar Carlsson

Gösta Ingvar Carlsson is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996.

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Siri Helle

Siri Helle (b. 1991) is an award-winning psychologist and bestselling author. With a background as a clinical therapist, she has worked with CBT-treatment for depression, stress, and anxiety. She is now an appreciated expert in business and media, popularizing psychological knowledge.

Helle is the spokesperson for the policy campaign 'Mental Health on the Curriculum', a coalition of 30 non-governmental organisations such as UNICEF Sweden, to improve mental health education in schools.

As an ambassador for effective givning, Helle donates 10 percent of her royalties to effective charity through GiveWell.org.

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Fredrik Reinfeldt

Fredrik Reinfeldt is a Swedish economist, lecturer and former politician who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009.

He is currently working for Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a senior adviser for its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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Jonas Eriksson

In three words: passionate, curious, creative.

In my daytime I'm the Creative Director at one of the leading online gaming companies in the world and
my free time I like to spend with my family, Lenah and Aiden, and when there's time I like to write and play tennis. We live on the mediterranean island of Malta where the sun (almost) always shines.

Here you can find a couple of free short stories and more information about my books: http://jonaswrites.com/my-books/

And why not check out my official site and blog at http://www.jonaswrites.com

Have a nice day! /JE.

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Lina Makboul

Lina Makboul (f. 1973) är journalist. Hon arbetar sedan 2002 på SVT:s samhällsredaktion i Göteborg.

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Henrik Arnstad

Henrik Arnstad är en svensk journalist och TV-spelsrecensent med inriktning på historia. Han är en ofta anlitad expert i Dagens Nyheter, TV4, Svenska Dagbladet och flera andra ledande medier i Sverige. Hans expertområden är Finlands deltagande i Förintelsen samt svensk och norsk fascism. Han läser historia på grundnivå vid Stockholms universitet.

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Torbjörn Flygt

Born in Malmö in 1964

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Alva Dahl

Alva Dahl, född 1985, är litterär översättare från engelska och norska, samt doktorand i nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet. Hennes forskning handlar om interpunktionens roll i skönlitterär prosa. Som översättare har hon hyllats för sina tolkningar av bland andra David Foster Wallace och Zadie Smith.
Dahl är även verksam som kulturskribent och redaktör – och var dessutom med och grundade Novellix 2011. Nu har hon skrivit novellen Allt har sin tid för förlaget.

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Jon Jordås

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