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  Hjalmar Söderberg

  Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the eyes of the flaneur. Söderberg is greatly appreciated in his native country, and is sometimes considered to be the equal of August Strindberg, Sweden's national author.

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  Aase Berg

  Poet, fiction writer, critic, translator, and one of the founding members of the Stockholm Surrealist Group.

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  Per Olov Enquist

  Per Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist was one of Sweden's internationally best known authors. He has worked as a journalist, playwright, and novelist. In the nineties, he gained international recognition with his novel The Visit of The Royal Physician.
  
  After a degree in History of literature at Uppsala University he worked as a newspaper columnist and TV debate moderator from 1965 to 1976. Because of his work he soon became an influential figure on the Swedish literary scene. From 1970 to 1971 Enquist lived in Berlin on a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and in 1973 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been working as an independent writer since 1977.
  
  Enquist's works are cha

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  Selma Lagerlöf

  Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". She later also became the first female member of the Swedish Academy.
  
  Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.
  
  As a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years befo

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  Birgitta Trotzig

  Birgitta Trotzig was a Swedish writer who was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1993. She was one of Sweden's most celebrated authors, and wrote prose fiction and non-fiction, as well as prose poetry.

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  Merethe Lindstrøm

  Merethe Lindstrøm er født i 1963 i Bergen og er oppvokst i Hammerfest, Stord og Høland. Nå bor hun i Oslo.
  Forfatteren debuterte med novellesamlingen "Sexorcisten og andre fortellinger" i 1983, og siden har hun skrevet flere novellesamlinger, romaner og en barnebok.
  Karakteristisk for forfatterskapet er hennes fokus på moderne menneskers søken etter andre og etter mening. Hun har fått mye oppmerksomhet for novellesamlingen "Svømme under vann" (1994) og romanene "Steinsamlere" (1996) og "Stedfortrederen" (1997). For novellesamlingen "Gjestene" (2007) var hun innstilt til Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2008 og nominert til Kritikerprisen for beste voksenbok 2007. Hun er tildelt Dobloug-prisen 2008 og Amalie Skram-prisen 2012 for sitt samlede forfa

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  Annika Norlin

  Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.
  
  Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide.
  

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  Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

  Carl Jonas Love (Ludvig) Almqvist was a romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller.
  
  He was the son of the army paymaster Karl Gustav Almqvist (1768–1846). He studied in Uppsala and was then worked as a clerk in Stockholm. In 1823 he gave up his post, and in the autumn of the year after moved to Köla in northern Värmland where he and some friends, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, intended to live out a rural idyll. It was there that he married and had two children. In 1828 he became a teacher at the experimental New Elementary School, Stockholm, and he was rector at the same from 1829 to 1841. Almqvist was ordained as pastor in 1837, but could not find work, and after publishing Det går an in 1839 gave up

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  Selma Lagerlöf

  Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". She later also became the first female member of the Swedish Academy.
  
  Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.
  
  As a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years befo

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  Moa Martinson

  Helga Maria Swarts, known as Moa Martinson, (2 November 1890, Vårdnäs - 5 August 1964) was a Swedish author.
  
  Helga's ambitions as a writer was to change the society and with her authorship portray the conditions of the working-class but also the personal development of women. In her work she wrote about: motherhood, love, poverty, politic, religion, urbanization and the hard living conditions of the working class woman.

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  Hjalmar Söderberg

  Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the eyes of the flaneur. Söderberg is greatly appreciated in his native country, and is sometimes considered to be the equal of August Strindberg, Sweden's national author.

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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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  Gun-Britt Sundström

  Gun-Britt Sundström är en svensk författare, översättare och litteraturkritiker.
  
  Som författare är Sundström mest känd för Maken (1976), en diskussionsroman om parförhållanden, och För Lydia (1973), som återberättar Hjalmar Söderbergs Den allvarsamma leken med handlingen sedd ur kvinnans perspektiv och flyttad sextio år framåt i tiden. Sedan 90-talet är hon även verksam som översättare av barnböcker och skönlitteratur. Då hon 2003 utnämndes till hedersdoktor vid Stockholms universitet löd motiveringen bland annat: "hennes språkliga lyhördhet gör henne till en ypperlig översättare ... Genom sin medverkan i bibelkommissionen 1980-2000 har hon kommit att betyda mer för den stilistiska utformningen av Gamla Testamentets text än någon annan enski

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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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  Lina Wolff

  Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the prestigious Vi magazine literature prize, given to writers to watch out for, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives with her family in Sweden.

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  Annika Norlin

  Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.
  
  Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide.
  

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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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  Andrev Walden

  Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin romandebut Jävla karlar, som också blev det årets bäst säljande svenska roman.

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  Amanda Romare

  Amanda Romare är producent på produktionsbolaget Bloody Brilliant Productions och en av grundarna till stiftelsen Den Andra Sidan.

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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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  Lars Norén

  Norén is considered Sweden's most prominent contemporary playwright of today. He wrote his first play at age 19. His first publication was a collection of poems - Syrener, snö (Lilac, snow) in 1963. His plays are realistic and often revolve around family relations and the impoverished and routed at the bottom of society.
  Norén became well known in connection with the murders of two policemen in Malexander in 1999. The culprits had received furlough from their incarceration at Österåker jail to participate in Norén's play 7:3.
  
  In 1971 he received Aftonbladet's literary prize.

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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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  Birgitta Stenberg

  Birgitta Stenberg was born in Stockholm in 1932. She was educated in Visby and finally in Paris. Stenberg spent a lot of time in southern Europe improving her language skills. She became a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. Stenberg was, during the early 1950s, a part of the literary assembly Metamorfosgruppen. She wrote the script for the film Raskenstam.
  
  During the Cold War in the 1950s, Stenberg was named secretary of the Swedish department of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and editor for Kulturkontakt which was founded by the CIA under the cover name of Ford Foundation.
  
  Stenbergs first novel Fritt förfall was refused by Bonnier Group in 1952 due to the novels "lack of literary quality". According to the authour herself, the pu

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  Elin Wägner

  Elin Matilda Elisabet Wägner (May 16, 1882 – January 7, 1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1944.
  
  Wägner's books and articles focus on the subjects of women's emancipation, civil rights, votes for women, the peace movement, welfare, and environmental pollution. She is best known for her commitment to the women's suffrage movement in Sweden, Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage, for founding the Swedish organization Rädda Barnen (the Swedish chapter of the International Save the Children Alliance) and for developing the women's citizen school at Fogelstad (where she was also a teacher on civil rights).
  
  Alongside Fredrika Bremer, Wägner is often seen as th

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  Anne Charlotte Leffler

  Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler, duchess of Cajanello (October 1, 1849 - October 21, 1892), was a Swedish author.
  
  She was the daughter of the school principal John Olof Leffler and Gustava Wilhelmina Mittag. Her brother was noted mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler.
  
  Her first volume of stories appeared in 1869, but the first to which she attached her name was Ur lifvet ("From Life," 1882), a series of realistic sketches of the upper circles of Swedish society, followed, by three other collections with the same title. Her earliest plays, Skådespelerskan ("The Actress," 1873), and its successors, were produced anonymously in Stockholm, but in 1883 her reputation was established by the success of Sanna qvinnor ("True Women") and En räddande engel (

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  Daniel Sjölin

  Daniel Sjölin, född 31 oktober 1977 i Bålsta, Håbo, är en svensk författare och programledare.
  
  Daniel Sjölin är författare och var under sju år programledare för litteraturprogrammet Babel SVT. För det senare tilldelades han 2008 Örjan Lindbergerpriset för att ha gjort "den goda litteraturen tillgänglig för en bred publik". Han har även varit litteraturkritiker för bl.a. Svenska Dagbladet och BLM, samt redaktör för tidskriften Lyrikvännen. Sjölin nominerades till Augustpriset 2007 för Världens sista roman.
  
  2012 blev Daniel Sjölin hedersdoktor vid humanistiska fakulteten vid Göteborgs universitet.
  
  Sjölin skriver tillsammans med Jerker Virdborg under författarpseudonymen Michael Mortimer. Hittills har tre delar kommit ut, Jungfrustenen, Fossildr

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  Klas Östergren

  Klas Östergren was born in Stockholm in 1955 and is the author of several novels including the landmark Gentlemen (1981) and its sequel, Gangsters (2005). A leading star of Swedish literature for nearly three decades, he has won the Piratenpriset and the Doblougska prize from the Swedish Academy. A founder of the rock band Fullersta Revolutionary Orchestra, Östergren has also worked as a translator, playwright, and scriptwriter for television and screen, and he co-wrote Mikael Håfström's film Ondskan, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He now lives with his wife and three children in the seafront town of Kivik in southern Sweden.
  
  Member of the Swedish Academy between 2014-2018.
  
  Author photo by Ulla Montan.

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  Suzanne Brøgger

  Kærlighedens og erotikkens frontkæmper kunne man kalde den danske forfatter Suzanne Brøgger, der siden sin debut ”Fri os fra kærligheden” i 1973, har udfordret de moderne samlivsformer igennem litteraturen og deltagelse i den offentlige debat. Forfatterskabet, der bl.a. søger at bane menneskenes vej ind i erotikkens væsen, afsluttes nu ved forfatterens 70-års fødselsdag, der markeres med både collageværket ”SZ” og en omfattende biografi om Suzanne Brøgger som ung kvinde, ”Krukke”.
  
  Blå bog
  
  Født: 18. november 1944 i København.
  
  Uddannelse: Uafsluttede studier i russisk og fransk ved Københavns Universitet.
  
  Debut: Fri os fra kærligheden. Gyldendal, 1973. Essays og noveller.
  
  Litteraturpriser: PH-prisen, 1975. Weekend Avisens Litteraturpris, 1980. Pr

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