Sara Engström

Sara Engström is an award-winning Swedish writer. She blends the well-known with the mystical, adjusts reality a bit and examines the result. She is interested in human ambiguity and her characters are filled to the brim with both flaws and ideals.

Her latest book, Blodlunden, is a descent into dark secrets set in an 18th-century-inspired world. The ruler of the realm grafts beating hearts into ancient trees in order to control the people they once belonged to. And that’s not even the worst of it.

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Jerker Virdborg

Jerker Virdborg (born 1971) was brought up in Lindome outside Gothenburg but now lives in Stockholm. His literary debut in 2001 was with the short story collection Landhöjning två centimeter per natt, followed the year after by the novel Svart krabba which among other distinctions was awarded the Literature Prize of the Swedish magazine Vi.

His subsequent novels Försvinnarna (2005), Mannen från Trinisla (2007) and Kall feber (2009) have all received huge critical acclaim, establishing Jerker Virdborg as one of Sweden’s foremost young writers.

Jerker Virdborgs novels have been translated into German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Russian, Lithuanian and Finnish.
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Elin Olausson

Elin Olausson skriver fantastik, skräck och historiska romaner på svenska och engelska. Hon bor på den värmländska landsbygden med skogen utanför fönstret, och har alltid minst en bok på nattduksbordet. Hon har gett ut skräckromanen Silver, novellsamlingarna Shadow Paths, Growth och Slottet Synd samt ett trettiotal fristående noveller, och är aktuell med serierna Bruket (Ravenheart förlag) och Dalens döttrar (Polaris).

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Elin Olausson is a fan of the weird and the unsettling. She is the author of the short story collections Growth and Shadow Paths and several books in Swedish, and has had stories featured in Chiral Mad 5, Gamut, Weird Horror, and many other publications.

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Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.

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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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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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Katarina Wennstam

Katarina Wennstam är en av Sveriges mest lästa författare med en bakgrund som kriminaljournalist i SVT. Som frontfigur i den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter och lika villkor har Wennstam varit avgörande för flera viktiga lagändringar, bland annat den nya samtyckeslagen som trädde i kraft 2018. Sekelskiftesmorden innebär en vändning i Wennstams författarskap, utan att skifta fokus från kvinnofrågorna.

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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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Ragnar Jónasson

Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.

His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.

Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation.

Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK.

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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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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.

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Christin Ljungqvist

Christin Ljungqvist är en svensk författare känd för sin stämningsfulla och genreöverskridande prosa som ofta rör sig i gränslandet mellan det övernaturliga, psykologiska och djupt mänskliga. Hon debuterade 2012 med Kaninhjärta, en ung vuxen-roman som hyllades för sitt poetiska språk och sina suggestiva teman.

Sedan dess har hon gett ut flera kritikerrosade romaner för både barn och unga, där fantastik och övernaturlighet flätas samman med socialrealism och ett starkt bildspråk. Hennes verk kretsar kring starka kvinnliga karaktärer, komplexa relationer och frågor om identitet, tro och förlust.

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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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Elin Olausson

Elin Olausson skriver fantastik, skräck och historiska romaner på svenska och engelska. Hon bor på den värmländska landsbygden med skogen utanför fönstret, och har alltid minst en bok på nattduksbordet. Hon har gett ut skräckromanen Silver, novellsamlingarna Shadow Paths, Growth och Slottet Synd samt ett trettiotal fristående noveller, och är aktuell med serierna Bruket (Ravenheart förlag) och Dalens döttrar (Polaris).

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Elin Olausson is a fan of the weird and the unsettling. She is the author of the short story collections Growth and Shadow Paths and several books in Swedish, and has had stories featured in Chiral Mad 5, Gamut, Weird Horror, and many other publications.

Elin’s rural childhood made her love and fear the woods, and she firmly
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου

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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.

Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται
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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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