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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Torgny Lindgren
Gustav Torgny Lindgren was a Swedish writer.
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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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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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Jon Jordås
Jon Jordås är dokumentärchef på produktionsbolaget Filt. Han har bevakat ett stort antal olika kriminalfall som journalist och bland annat jobbat med prisbelönta P3 Dokumentär om Palmeutredningen inifrån.
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Bodil Malmsten
Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944 in Bjärme, Jämtland) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents.
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The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France. It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block.
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Thuận
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Björn Natthiko Lindeblad
Björn Natthiko Lindeblad (Buddhist name Natthiko Bhikku) was a Swedish economist, lecturer, and Buddhist monk.
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Jonathan Lundberg
Journalist och författare av Sverigevänner (2019), Från världskrig till nätkrig (2021), Cicada 3301 (2025).
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Joakim Zander
Born in Stockholm, Joakim Zander has lived in Syria, Israel, and the USA, before settling in Helsinki where he now lives. He studied law at Uppsala and Maastricht Universities, and his award-winning PhD thesis was published by Cambridge University Press. He now works as a lawyer for the European Union.
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Fredrik Eklund
Fredrik Eklund, the energetic, high-kicking, top broker at Douglas Elliman has secured over two billion dollars in closed residential sales. Constantly rated as New York City's "Top Luxury Broker," he set record sales in 28 buildings in Manhattan last year alone and is often spotted showing apartments to top name celebrities.
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Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Eklund is the star of the hit BRAVO show, Million Dollar Listing New York. He is known for being part "shark" in business and part "softie" at home with his puppies and family.
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Sven Lindqvist
Dr. Sven Lindqvist was a Swedish author of mostly non-fiction.
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He held a PhD in History of literature from Stockholm University (his thesis, in 1966, was on Vilhelm Ekelund) and a 1979 honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. In 1960–1961, he worked as cultural attaché at the Swedish embassy in Beijing, China. From 1956–86 he was married to Cecilia Lindqvist, with whom he had two children. He was married to the economist Agneta Stark since 1986. He lived in the Södermalm area of central Stockholm. -
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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Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and plays and also participated in public debates about the Swedish monarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognised criticism against the Hitler regime.
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A noted public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was noted for very vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), likening it with a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its -
Karin Boye
Karin Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.
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She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.
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Liv Strömquist
Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the Österlen region of south Sweden. Today she lives in Malmö. Already as a five-year old she made her own comics, but stopped, until she took up drawing comics at the age of 23. Her flatmate made her interested in comic fanzines then. With Rikedomen, she published her first own fanzine.
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Her breakthrough as a comic artist followed with her first album Hundra procent fett ("One hundred percent fat"), which was published in 2005.[4] She regularly publishes in the comic magazine Galago in various magazines and newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter, Dagens Arbete, Bang, Aftonbladet and Ordfront Magasin.[5][6] She designed the cover for the 2013 album Shaking the Habitual by the band The Knife. S -
Chika Unigwe
Chika Unigwe was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now lives in Turnhout, Belgium, with her husband and four children. She writes in English and Dutch.
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In April 2014 she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.
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Unigwe holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and an MA from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She also holds a PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, having completed a thesis entitled "In the shadow of Ala. Igbo women writing as an act of righting" in 2004.
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Martina Haag
Martina Haag, born Helen Martina Uusma on 9 June 1964 in Lidingö, is a Swedish actress and author.
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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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Göran Tunström
Göran Tunström was a Swedish novelist best known for Juloratoriet (The Christmas Oratorio).
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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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Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Phil at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Her first collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her second, Walk the Blue Fields, was Richard Ford’s book of the year. Her works have won several awards including The Hugh Leonard Bursary, The Macaulay Fellowship, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, The Martin Healy Prize, The Olive Cook Award, The Kilkenny Prize, The Tom Gallon Award and The William Trevor Prize, judged by William Trevor. Twice was Keegan the recipient of the Francis MacManus Award. She was also a Wingate -
Lynne Tillman
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Here’s an Author’s Bio. It could be written differently. I’ve written many for myself and read lots of other people’s. None is right or sufficient, each slants one way or the other. So, a kind of fiction – selection of events and facts.. So let me just say: I wanted to be a writer since I was eight years old. That I actually do write stories and novels and essays, and that they get published, still astonishes me.
My news is that my 6th novel MEN AND APPARITIONS will appear in march 2018 from Soft Skull Press. It's my first novel in 12 years.
Each spring, I teach writing at University at Albany, in the English Dept., and in the fall, at The New School, in the Writing Dept.
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Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli
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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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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.
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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. -
Jessica Schiefauer
Jessica Schiefauer är född 1978 och uppvuxen i Kungälv utanför Göteborg. Hon har gått skrivarutbildningar på Fridhems folkhögskola, Bona folkhögskola och Nordiska folkhögskolan. Hon har även studerat svenska, engelska och litteraturvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet och har en pedagogisk examen i språk och kreativt skrivande.Vid sidan om författarskapet arbetar Jessica med kurser i språk och skrivande.
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Ulf Nilsson
Ulf Nilsson is a prolific author, who's written over 100 books and received many awards, including the August and American Batchelder awards.
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Nina Bouraoui
Nina Bouraoui (born on 31 July 1967) is a French writer born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, of an Algerian father and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers, then Zürich and Abu Dhabi. She now lives in Paris.
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Her novels are mostly written in the first person and, with the exception of Avant les hommes (Before the Men), have been said by the author to be works of "auto-fiction". This is even the case for Le Bal des Murènes (The ball of moray eels), which, like Avant les hommes, has a male narrator. Since writing her first novel in 1991, Bouraoui has affirmed the influence of Marguerite Duras in her work, although the life narratives and works many other artists are also to be found in her novels (and songs). -
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano is a French-language author and playwright and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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He is a winner of the 1972 Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, and the 1978 Prix Goncourt for his novel "Rue des boutiques obscures".
Modiano's parents met in occupied Paris during World War II and began a clandestine relationship. Modiano's childhood took place in a unique atmosphere: with an absent father -- of which he heard troubled stories of dealings with the Vichy regime -- and a Flemish-actress mother who frequently toured. His younger brother's sudden death also greatly influenced his writings.
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Stig Dagerman
Stig Dagerman was one of the most prominent Swedish authors during the 1940s. In the course of five years, 1945-49, he enjoyed phenomenal success with four novels, a collection of short stories, a book about postwar Germany, five plays, hundreds of poems and satirical verses, several essays of note and a large amount of journalism. Then, with apparent suddenness, he fell silent. In the fall of 1954, Sweden was stunned to learn that Stig Dagerman, the epitome of his generation of writers, had been found dead in his car: he had closed the doors of the garage and run the engine.
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Dagerman's works deal with universal problems of morality and conscience, of sexuality and social philosophy, of love, compassion and justice. He plunges into the painf -
Bea Uusma
Mari Beatrice "Bea" Uusma, previously Uusma Schyffert, is a Swedish author, illustrator and medical doctor.
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Niels Fredrik Dahl
Niels Fredrik Dahl er en norsk forfatter og dramatiker.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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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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Malin Lindroth
Malin Lindroth writes poetry, short stories, and plays. She lives on the west coast of Sweden.
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Amanda Svensson
Amanda Svensson är bosatt i Malmö. Hon är verksam som kulturjournalist och debuterade med den uppmärksammade Hey Dolly (2008).
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Amanda Svensson nominerades till Augustpriset 2011 för Välkommen till den här världen: med motiveringen:
”En oliksidig triangel är inte perfekt, konstaterar författaren till den här romanen, om kärlek, vänskap och en ödesdiger svartsjuka. I 'Välkommen till den här världen:' svingar sig Amanda Svensson suveränt mellan olika språknivåer och skildrar färgsprakande, lekfullt och hektiskt tre unga människor på jakt efter mening i Köpenhamns elektrifierade natt. En nattklubbstragedi, en hela-havet-stormarlek på liv och död. Det är intensivt, det är innovativt och det är alldeles alldeles underbart.” -
Göran Rosenberg
Göran Jakob Rosenberg is a Swedish journalist and author. He is the son of David and Hala Rosenberg from Łódz in Poland, who both came to Sweden after having survived concentration camps during World War II.
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Rosenberg has worked at Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television; 1979–85 he was host and reporter of the actuality-program Magasinet. In 1990 he founded the magazine Moderna Tider which he was editor-in-chief of until 1999, and he also hosted the actuality-program with the same name which was broadcast in TV3. 1991–2011 he worked as columnist at Dagens Nyheter. He workes as honorary degree at the University of Gothenburg.
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Patrik Svensson
Lars Patrik Svensson (born 1972) is a Swedish journalist and author. Svensson works in the cultural editorial department of Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad.
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In the summer of 2019, he made his debut as an author with the book Ålevangeliet, which is partly a non-fiction book about the eel as a species and about the eel's cultural history, and partly an autobiographical story about the author and his father. Rights to publish the book have been purchased in 2019 for publication in 33 other languages. The book received the August Prize for Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019. -
Frida Nilsson
Frida Nilsson (born 1979) is a Swedish children’s writer whose first book was published in 2004. She has won numerous international shortlistings and prizes, including the August Prize, the German Youth Literature Prize, Expressens Heffaklump and the Astrid Lindgren Prize. She was chosen as one of the best emerging writers in Europe under 39. Nilsson’s writing is characterised by playfulness and sincerity. She has been compared to Roald Dahl and Barbro Lindgren.
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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.
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York.
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He made a celebrated debut in 2003 with Ett öga rött/One Eye Red, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden and became the best-selling paperback of any category in 2004. For Ett öga rött/One Eye Red Jonas Hassen Khemiri received the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut, Sweden’s most important award for a first book. In the fall of 2007 the film based on Ett öga rött/One Eye Red will open in Swedish cinemas.
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Agneta Pleijel
Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. She was assigned professor at Dramatiska Institutet from 1992.She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991.
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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.
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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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Gun-Britt Sundström
Gun-Britt Sundström är en svensk författare, översättare och litteraturkritiker.
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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 -
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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Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist är en svensk journalist och författare.
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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.
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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.
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Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide. -
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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Lydia Sandgren
Lydia Sandgren, född 8 januari 1987, är en svensk författare. Hon har uppmärksammats för att år 2020 ha vunnit Augustpriset.
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Lydia Sandgren (b. 1987) is the eldest of seven siblings brought up in the west of Sweden. She has studied music, philosophy, and is a practising psychologist today, living in Göteborg. Samlade verk (Collected Works) is her debut. -
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.
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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 -
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.
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His debut novel Hyper will was published in January 2024.
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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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Amanda Romare
Amanda Romare är producent på produktionsbolaget Bloody Brilliant Productions och en av grundarna till stiftelsen Den Andra Sidan.
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Majgull Axelsson
Majgull Axelsson (b. 1947) is a famous Swedish journalist and writer. She grew up in Nässjö and had education in journalism.
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Her first book was non-fiction, and focused on the problems of child prostitution and street children in third world, and poverty in Sweden. April witch is her second novel, and one that was well received in Sweden. With over 400,000 copies sold in hardcover, It landed on several bestsellers lists for months and received important Swedish literature awards including the Moa Martinsson Prize Jörgen Eriksson's Prize and Augustpriset. It addresses themes of mother-daughter relationships, competition between women, and the failures of Sweden's postwar welfare state.
Axelsson lives with her husband on Lidingö.
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Roland Paulsen
Roland Paulsen (f. 1981) är författare och doktor i sociologi. 2010 gav han ut boken Arbetssamhället som ifrågasätter synen på arbete i relation till det minskade behovet av arbete i samband med den tekniska utvecklingen.
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Carl Frode Tiller
Carl Frode Tiller is a author, historian and musician. His works are in Nynorsk (lit. "New Norwegian"), one of the two official Norwegian standard languages . Tiller debuted in 2001 with the novel Skråninga (Downward Slope), which was recognized as the best initial work of the year with the Tarjei Vesaas' Debute Prize . Downward Slope was nominated for the Brageprisen (the Brage Prize is a juried award). In November 2007 Tiller was awarded the Brageprisen for his novel Innsirkling (Encirclement). In the fall of 2007 Innsirkling received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and was nominated for the premiere Scandinavian literature prize, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize .
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Annika Widholm
2010 – Stenhusets hemlighet
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2012 – Luftsprång
2012 – Monsterdansen
2013 – Rymdfjärilen
2016 – Spökspanarna
2016 – Zombiespanarna
2017 – Stenkistan
2017 – Trollspanarna
2018 – Grottspanarna
2018 – Yrsel
2018 – Underströmmar
2019 – Vampyrspanarna
2021 – Odjurspanarna
2022 – Ufospanarna
2022 – Flickan och demonen
2022 – Halvön
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Jonas Karlsson
Sven Bert Jonas Karlsson is a Swedish actor and author. He won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in 2004 for the movie Details. He published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 2007.
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Shani Boianjiu
Shani Boianjiu was born in 1987 in a small town on the Israel/Lebanon border, and she served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Vice magazine, and Zoetrope: All Story. Shani is the youngest recipient ever of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award, for which she was chosen by Nicole Krauss. She lives in Israel.
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Marit Kapla
Marit Kapla, född 4 september är en svensk kulturjournalist och författare. 2019 tilldelades hon Augustpriset i den skönlitterära klassen för sin debutbok Osebol.
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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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Constance Debré
Constance Debré is the daughter of journalist François Debré (1942-2020) and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray (1942-1988), granddaughter of Michel Debré (1912-1996), former Prime Minister of General de Gaulle, and of Jean Ybarnégaray (1883-1956), minister of the Vichy regime and resistance fighter. She is also the niece of the statesman Jean-Louis Debré.
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She was 16 when her mother died. She studied at Lycée Henri-IV, then law at Panthéon-Assas University. She is a graduate of class 99 (E99) of the ESSEC Business School. Married in 1993, she had a son in 2008. A lawyer by profession in 2010, she accompanied her father in 2011, charged in the case of fictitious jobs at the town hall of Paris. Recognized for her eloquence, she was elected second -
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.
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”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 -
Siri Hustvedt
Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota. Her father Lloyd Hustvedt was a professor of Scandinavian literature, and her mother Ester Vegan emigrated from Norway at the age of thirty. She holds a B.A. in history from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University; her thesis on Charles Dickens was entitled Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend.
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Hustvedt has mainly made her name as a novelist, but she has also produced a book of poetry, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects published in (among others) The Art of the Essay, 1999, The Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991, The Paris Review, Yale Review, and Modern Painters.
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Ingvild H. Rishøi
Ingvild H. Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo and hers is a wildly willful voice in fiction. She has consistently wowed readers with her pared down yet powerful storytelling, with an acute eye for the wonder of everyday life and for vulnerable characters at the fringes of society, not seldom children.
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Her literary career began in 2007 with the release of the short story collection, Do Not Erase, which introduced her as a promising new voice in Norwegian literature. Her second collection of short stories, The Tale of Mrs Berg, published in 2011, was shortlisted for the prestigious Brage Prize.
In 2014, Rishøi received widespread acclaim and popular recognition for the short story collection Winter Stories. The book won the Critics’ Prize for b -
Ursula Parrott
Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 – September 1957), was an American writer of romantic novels. Her first book, Ex-Wife (1929), was a best seller, and was adapted for film as The Divorcee, starring Norma Shearer. Exploring changing sexual mores and their implications for women, Ex-Wife was considered scandalous in its time. Between 1930 and 1936, Parrott sold the rights to eight more novels and stories that were made into films.
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Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Kajsa Ekis Ekman (born 1980) is a Swedish journalist, writer and activist. She is the author of several works about the financial crisis, women's rights and capitalism critique. She writes for the major Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter and is an op-ed columnist at the leftwing daily ETC.
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Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.
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She began her career with a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna ("The Three Little Masters") and Dödsklockan ("The Death Clock")) but later went on to persue psychological and social themes. Among her later works are Mörker och blåbärsris ("Darkness and Blueberries"), set in northern Sweden, and Händelser vid vatten (translated as Blackwater), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.
Ekman was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. According to the rules of the Academy, however, she will -
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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Tomáš Halík
Tomáš Halík is a Czech public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest, and scholar.
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Vigdis Hjorth
Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.
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In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.
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Bim Eriksson
Brim Eriksson is a Swedish cartoonist and visual artist.
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Born in 1991, Eriksson first major work was the graphic novel I felt nothing when my feelings died (2016). Her international breakthrough came with Baby Blue (2021), a dystopian thriller about a society that polices emotions, published in eight languages.
Her other short comics have appeared in anthologies and magazines, including Swedish illustration magazine 'Galago', Italian magazine 'Internazionale', French newspaper 'Le Monde diplomatique'. -
Kristian Gidlund
Kristian Gidlund was a Swedish writer, journalist and musician.
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In 2011 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. After being diagnosed he started a blog, I kroppen min/Inside my body, which has since had at least eight million visitors.
He went through several chemotherapy sessions, but the cancer continued to advance. In June 2013 his book I kroppen min - resan mot livets slut och alltings början / Inside my body - the journey towards life's end and the beginning of everything was released, featuring large excerpts from his blog. Both the blog and the book received wide attention in the media.
In September 2013, a few days before what would have been his thirtieth birthday, he finally succumbed to the disease and passed away. -
Agneta Pleijel
Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. She was assigned professor at Dramatiska Institutet from 1992.She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991.
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Helene Cooper
Helene Cooper is a Liberian-born American journalist who is a White House correspondent for the New York Times. Previous to that, she was the diplomatic correspondent for the paper based in Washington, D.C.. She joined the Times in 2004 as assistant editorial page editor.
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At The Wall Street Journal, Cooper wrote about trade, politics, race and foreign policy at the Washington and Atlanta bureaus from 1992 to 1997. From 1997 to 1999, she reported on the European Monetary Union from the London bureau. From 1999 to 2002, she was a reporter focusing on international economics; then assistant Washington bureau chief from 2002 to 2004.
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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.
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I have written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The New Republic, LA Review of Books and Granta.
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Linda Boström Knausgård
Linda Boström Knausgård debuted with the poetry collection Gör mig behaglig för såret in 1998. Her prose debut is entitled Grand mal.
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Kristina Sandberg
Kristina Sandberg is a Swedish novelist. She won the August Prize in 2014 for the novel Liv till varje pris .
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Ia Genberg
Ia Gabriella Genberg (born 5 November 1967) is a Swedish journalist and novelist.
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Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she debuted as a writer in 2012 with the novel Söta fredag ("Sweet Friday"). Her fourth novel, Detaljerna ("The Details"), won the August Prize in 2022, the year of its publication. The English translation, by Kira Josefsson, was shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
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Susanna Alakoski
Susanna Alakoski is a Swedish-Finnish author and lecturer. She won the August Prize in 2006 for the novel Svinalängorna . She researches gender issues and works as a social worker.
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Hans Gunnarsson
Hans Gunnarsson (1966) was born and brought up in Finspång but now lives in Stockholm. Since the short story collection Bakom glas (Behind Glass) which was published in 1996 and won the Swedish Catapult Prize for Best Debut, Hans Gunnarsson has written a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed short story collections and novels. Hans Gunnarsson is also one of Sweden’s most established screenwriters
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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.
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Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide. -
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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Agri Ismaïl
Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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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. -
Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist är en svensk journalist och författare.
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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.
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York.
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He made a celebrated debut in 2003 with Ett öga rött/One Eye Red, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden and became the best-selling paperback of any category in 2004. For Ett öga rött/One Eye Red Jonas Hassen Khemiri received the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut, Sweden’s most important award for a first book. In the fall of 2007 the film based on Ett öga rött/One Eye Red will open in Swedish cinemas.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s second novel, Montecore, was published to unanimous raving reviews in 2006. In strong international competition it was awarded -
Geir Gulliksen
Geir Gulliksen, a Norwegian author and publisher, is from Kongsberg and resides in Oslo.
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He studied writing at Bø in 1985 and has worked as an editor at the publishing house Tiden Norsk Forlag. He has also helped popularize several important younger Norwegian authors, including Karl Ove Knausgaard. -
Kajsa Ingemarsson
Kajsa Ingemarsson is one of Sweden’s bestselling novelists, already beloved throughout Europe. Her novels are warm and compassionate, where the reader finds people, settings, and events that are current, compelling, and relatable. Her writing style is entertaining and stylish, put forth in a conversational tone that is, at same time, smart and expertly developed to lead the reader through the personal development that is the foundation of her stories.
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In the same tradition as Nora Roberts, Mitch Albom and Julie Powell, Kajsa Ingemarsson represents a new generation of contemporary fiction. With almost a million readers in Sweden alone, she is one of Sweden’s greatest bestsellers of all times.
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Åsa Linderborg
Åsa Natacha Linderborg (née Andersson, born 20 May 1968) is a Swedish writer and historian. She writes regularly for Aftonbladet, where she works as chief cultural editor.
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Åsa Linderborg was born in the city of Västerås, where she also grew up. Her father worked as a metalworker and her mother, Tanja Linderborg, is a former politician and Member of Parliament for the Left Party – Communists. Åsa Linderborg herself became a member of the Left Party – Communists in 1980 and the following year of its youth wing, the Communist Youth. In 1987 she became an ombudsman for the Communist Youth in Mälardalen.
Linderborg graduated with a Ph.D. in history from Uppsala University in 2001 with the dissertation Socialdemokraterna skriver historia ("Soci -
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Eduardo Halfon
Eduardo Halfon nació en 1971 en la ciudad de Guatemala. Ha publicado Esto no es una pipa, Saturno (2003), De cabo roto (2003), El ángel literario (2004), Siete minutos de desasosiego (2007), Clases de hebreo (2008), Clases de dibujo (2009), El boxeador polaco (2008; Libros del Asteroide, 2019), La pirueta (2010), Mañana nunca lo hablamos (2011), Elocuencias de un tartamudo (2012), Monasterio (Libros del Asteroide, 2014), Signor Hoffman (Libros del Asteroide, 2015), Duelo (Libros del Asteroide, 2017), Clases de chapín (2017), Biblioteca bizarra (2018), Canción (Libros del Asteroide, 2021), Un hijo cualquiera (Libros del Asteroide, 2022) y Tarántula (Libros del Asteroide, 2024).
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Victoria Benedictsson
See also pseudonym: Ernst Ahlgren
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Victoria Benedictsson (March 6, 1850, Domme – July 21, 1888) was a Swedish author. She was born as Victoria Maria Bruzelius in Domme, a village in the province of Skåne. She wrote under the pen name Ernst Ahlgren.
Benedictsson grew up on a farm in Sweden. At 21 she married a 49-year-old widower from Hörby. Benedictsson was not happy in her marriage and had a love affair with the Danish critic and scholar Georg Brandes. The unhappy love affair has often been blamed for her subsequent suicide, but she was also very unhappy with the intellectually limited life she led. She is, together with August Strindberg, regarded as one of the greatest proponents of the Swedish realist writing style. In her novels she descr -
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
Carl Jonas Love (Ludvig) Almqvist was a romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller.
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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