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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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. -
Chris Cleave
Dr Chris Cleave is a New York Times #1 bestselling novelist, a chartered psychologist and a psychotherapist. He writes a weekly piece on humanity and healing at http://chriscleave.substack.com
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Chris was born in London and spent his early years in Cameroon. His novels are:
INCENDIARY
LITTLE BEE
(THE OTHER HAND)
GOLD
EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN
He lives in London with his wife and some of their three adult children.
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Pär Lagerkvist
Lagerkvist was born in 1891 in southern Sweden. In 1910 he went to Uppsala as a student and in 1913 he left for Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Pablo Picasso. He studied Middle Age Art, as well as Indian and Chinese literature, to prepare himself for becoming a poet. His first collection of poetry was published in 1916. In 1940 Lagerkvist was chosen as one of the "aderton" (the eighteen) of the Swedish Academy.
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Lagerkvist wrote poetry, novels, plays, short stories and essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind." -
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. -
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.
Göran Rosenberg competed in the TV program På spåret in 2009/2010 together with his daughter Vanna. -
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. -
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 -
Pajtim Statovci
Pajtim Statovci is a Kosovo-born Finnish author.
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FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia ja Tiranan sydän, ovat saaneet englanninkielisessä maailmassa haltioituneen vastaanoton. Hänen teostensa käännösoikeuksia on myyty yli 15 kielialueelle. Statovci palkittiin esikoisromaanistaan Kissani Jugoslavia Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnolla, ja Tiranan sydän voitti Toisinkoinen-kirjallisuuspalkinnon. Statovci asuu Helsingissä ja valmistelee Helsingin yliopistossa väitöskirjaa kirjallisuuden eläinrepresentaatioista.
Tiranan sydän (englanniksi Crossing) oli ehdolla arvostetun National Book Awards -palkinnon saajaksi. Bolla sai Finla -
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.
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Mikael Niemi
Mikael Niemi is a Swedish author. He wrote the novel Populärmusik från Vittula (in English as Popular music from Vittula). It became a best-seller in Sweden and was subsequently translated into 30 languages.
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He first became famous by writing poetry, and he has published many collections of poetry, such as Änglar med mausergevär (Angels with mauserguns), Med rötter här uppe (With roots up here) and his very first, Näsblod under högmässan (Nosebleed during the high mass). He has also written many works for the theatre.
Many of his books contain some Meänkieli language, the local variety of Finnish.
Niemi was educated in Luleå but currently resides in Pajala. -
Anni Kytömäki
Anni Kytömäki on palkittu suomalainen kirjailija. Koulutukseltaan hän on luontokartoittaja. Kytömäen esikoisteos Kultarinta oli ehdolla vuoden 2014 Finlandia-palkinnon ja Helsingin Sanomien esikoiskirjapalkinnon saajaksi. Kultarinta palkittiin Kaarlen palkinnolla, Tulenkantaja-palkinnolla ja Tampereen kaupungin kirjallisuuspalkinnolla. Margarita-romaani voitti vuoden 2020 Finlandia-palkinnon.
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Ulrika Lagerlöf
Ulrika Lagerlöf works in communications within forestry since the past ten years. She lives in Uppsala and made her debut in 2021 with the novel Stanna hos mig (Stay with me).
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Her second novel, Cloudberry Mire (2024) is the first part in a series, and inspired by Ulrika Lagerlöf’s own family history. It has been praised by both readers and critics, and in 2025 the eagerly awaited second installment, Pale Soil will be published in Sweden, as well as six international launches of the first part. Cloudberry Mire starts in the late 1930’s, Pale Soil unfolds in the 1950’s and Heartwood in the 1960’s. -
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.
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Malin Haawind har tidigare skrivit fyra fackböcker om gräl, föräldraskap, mat och smuts. Hon är även verksam som redaktör och skrivarkursledare. -
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 -
Enni Mustonen
FI: Enni Mustonen on kirjailija Kirsti Mannisen kirjailijanimi.
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EN: Enni Mustonen is the penname of author Kirsti Manninen. -
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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Satu Rämö
My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.
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Here you can find my interview in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
I was born in Finland in 1980 and moved to Iceland twenty years ago and started writing books.
I have published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in my native Finland, ranging from travel guides to Iceland, to inspirational memoirs and an Icelandic knitting book.
My crime fiction debut Hildur (2022) changed the game for me as an author, totally. HILDUR-series is Icelandic-Finnish nordic blue crime fiction that takes place in a small village in the Westfjords of Iceland. Nordic blue is similar to nordic noir but more human. The stories ar -
Anna Soudakova
Anna Soudakova is a teacher of Finnish, French and Russian languages who lives in Vantaa, Finland.
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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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Bali Rai
Bali Rai was born in 1971 and grew up in Leicester. As a child, Bali wanted to be a footballer or to write stories. Always an avid reader, he hails Sue Townsend, Douglas Adams and Robert Swindells as his writing heroes. Bali grew up reading Dr Seuss and Meg and Mog and his first book purchase was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. He realised he wasn't good enough to play for Liverpool F.C. and after gaining a politics degree in London he returned to his home city and combined a variety of jobs in pubs and clubs with completing his first novel. Bali set about writing a story he had been thinking about for many years. He wanted to write accessible material for children of all ages and backgrounds and realising there were no British Asian
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Moa Martinson
Helga Maria Swarts, known as Moa Martinson, (2 November 1890, Vårdnäs - 5 August 1964) was a Swedish author.
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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. -
Arkan Asaad
Arkan Assad kom till Sverige 1983 tillsammans med sin familj och växte upp i Eskilstuna och Stockholm. Som 19-åring förverkliga sin dröm som filmregissör. Han började studera Regissörs linjen på Stockholm Filmskola.
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Han är flerfaldig svensk mästare i Taekwondo och innehar 4:e svarta bältet (4DAN).
Arkan Asaad har också och arbetat med radioprogrammet Underlandet som sänts i P3. Även deltog som sommarpratare 2015 i ett väldigt uppskattat program.
Hans första roman, "Stjärnlösa nätter", publicerades 2011.
Hans andra roman "Blod rödare än rött" publicerades 2014
Arkan Asaad fick för sin bok ta emot Stiftelsen Teskedsordens bokpris 2011 med motiveringen:
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Jan Fridegård
Johan Fridolf Fridegård, known as Jan Fridegård, originally Johansson and in youth called Fride Johansson, was a Swedish writer. In the Swedish literature Fridegård belonged to the so called proletarian authors, specifically (statarskolan). He is known for integrating social issues and conditions within his novels. His most prominent books are the self-biographical "Lars Hard" series as well as his Viking age trilogy. However, he was a very prolific author.
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Fridegård kom från statarmiljö; den fräna självbiografiska romansviten om Lars Hård (1935–36) genomsyras av ett frigörelsepatos. Samma engagemang kännetecknar också trilogin om den upproriske trälen Holme, Trägudars land (1940), Gryningsfolket (1944) och Offerrök (1949). -
Anders Nordstad
Anders Nordstad er siviløkonom, tidligere generalsekretær i Norsk bonde- og småbrukarlag og en ettertraktet foredragsholder. Han har jobbet med kornhandel i Norge og Tyskland og soyainnkjøp fra Brasil.
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Hjalmar Bergman
Hjalmar Bergman was a Swedish writer and playwright.
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The son of a banker in Örebro, Bergman briefly studied philosophy at Uppsala University but soon broke off his studies and took up the life of a free writer. He married Stina Lindberg, the daughter of actor and stage producer August Lindberg and Augusta Lindberg, and sister of Per Lindberg. Up to his father's death in 1915 Bergman was heavily sponsored by the family patriarch; after the old man died from a stroke it turned out that the family business had become highly indebted and Bergman was forced to start making money out of his writing and court readers in a more outgoing and more entertaining manner. He rose to the challenge and in the following ten years reached the peak of his work -
Martin Koch
Martin Koch (December 23, 1882 - June 22, 1940) was a Swedish novelist.
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He was a key representative of the proletarian authors in Sweden. -
Kristian Lundberg
Kristian Lundberg was a Swedish author and journalist, who wrote and published over 40 novels and collections of poetry. His first title as an author "Genom september" (Through September) was published in 1991. His novel "Och allt ska vara kärlek" (And everything should be love) was awarded with the Swedish Radio Novel Prize, and before that he was the recipient of several awards such as the Ivar Lo Prize and the Aniara Award.
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The poetry book Job was nominated for the August Prize in 2005. In 2013 he was awarded with the Signe Ekblad Eld-prize for his authorship and in 2014 he recieved the Lars Ahlin-Award.