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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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K. Svensson

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Kristoffer Svensson
Kringlan Svensson

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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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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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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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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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Sara Lidman

Lidman was raised in the Västerbotten region of northern Sweden. She studied at the University of Uppsala where her studies were interrupted by her receiving tuberculosis. She achieved her first great success with the novel Tjärdalen (The Tar Still). In this novel and in Hjortronlandet she depicts themes like alienation and loneliness. In this and her following three novels, she described the difficult conditions for poor farmers in the northern Swedish province Västerbotten during the nineteenth century.

Her innovative style was influenced by dialects and biblical language.

In connection with her first four novels, she wrote a number of texts with strong political content. She engaged in protest against the Vietnam War (including traveling t

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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabe

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Juan José Saer

Juan José Saer was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He is considered the most important writer of Argentina after Jorge Luis Borges and the best Argentine writer of the second half of the 20th century.

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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.

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."

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Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu. Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, an Guinean actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana, and Senegal. In 1981, she divorced, but the following year married Richard Philcox, English language translator of most of her novels.

Condé's novels explore racial, gender, and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and the 19th century

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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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Pierre Boulle

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Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963) that were both made into award-winning films.

Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in The Bridge over the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. The film by David Lean won many Oscars, and Boulle was credited with writing the screenplay, because its two genuine authors had been blacklisted.

His science-fiction

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Stella Kleve

Pseudonym for Mathilda Malling

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Maria Hesselager

Maria Hesselager (f. 1984) er uddannet fra Forfatterskolen. Sammen med billedkunstner Mathias Dyhr driver hun Kunstteater, et arbejdsfællesskab for tværdisciplinære kunstneriske produktioner, som senest har lavet udstillingen og forestillingsrækken "Allei Husene" på Holstebro Kunstmuseum (2020).

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Michał Trusewicz

Michał Trusewicz (ur. 1995) – pisarz, redaktor i krytyk literacki, studiował polonistykę na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, redagował magazyn literacki „Wizje”. Autor książek takich jak Frakcje (2021) i Przednówki (2021).

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collections are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe".

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Bibiana Candia

Bibiana Candia es escritora. Ha publicado los poemarios La rueda del hámster y Las trapecistas no tenemos novio, el libro de relatos El pie de Kafka y el artefacto narrativo Fe de erratas. Colabora de manera regular en las revistas Jot Down y Letras Libres.
Azucre es su primera novela.

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Marjaneh Bakhtiari

Marjaneh Bakhtiari, född 21 mars 1980 i Teheran, Iran, är en svensk författare som bor i Malmö. Bakhtiari har studerat socialantropologi och journalistik.

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Leonard Gardner

Leonard Gardner is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, The Southwest Review, and other publications, and he has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Gardner was born in Stockton, and went to San Francisco State University.

Gardner's 1969 novel Fat City is an American classic whose stature has increased over the years. His screen adaptation of Fat City was made into an acclaimed 1972 film of the same title, directed by John Huston. The book and movie are set in and around Stockton and concern the struggles of third-rate pro boxers who only dimly comprehend that none of them will ever make the big time. Devoid of the usual "sweet science" cliches, the book roil

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Dan Andersson

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Daniel "Dan" Andersson was a Swedish author and poet. He also set some of his own poems to music. Andersson married primary school teacher Olga Turesson, the sister of artist Gunnar Turesson, in 1918. A nom de plume he sometimes used was "Svarte Jim" (Black Jim). Andersson is counted among the Swedish proletarian authors. His poetry enjoys a broad popularity among the Swedish people due to amongst other things its naturalist mysticism.

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Sara Lidman

Lidman was raised in the Västerbotten region of northern Sweden. She studied at the University of Uppsala where her studies were interrupted by her receiving tuberculosis. She achieved her first great success with the novel Tjärdalen (The Tar Still). In this novel and in Hjortronlandet she depicts themes like alienation and loneliness. In this and her following three novels, she described the difficult conditions for poor farmers in the northern Swedish province Västerbotten during the nineteenth century.

Her innovative style was influenced by dialects and biblical language.

In connection with her first four novels, she wrote a number of texts with strong political content. She engaged in protest against the Vietnam War (including traveling t

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Monika Fagerholm

Monika Fagerholm’s much-praised first novel, Wonderful Women by the Sea, became one of the most widely translated Scandinavian literary novels of the mid-nineties and was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 1998 it was followed by the cult novel Diva, which won the Swedish Literature Society Award. Her third novel, The American Girl, became a number-one best seller and won the premier literary award in Sweden, the August Prize, as well as the Aniara Prize and the Gothenburg Post Award.

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Aki Ollikainen

Aki Ollikainen (born 1973) is a Finnish writer. A photographer and journalist by profession, Ollikainen received widespread acclaim for his debut novel Nälkävuosi (2012), an account of the Finnish famine of 1866-1868. The book won several prizes and has been translated into English by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah under the title White Hunger (Peirene Press, 2015).
Ollikainen lives in Kolari in northern Finland. His second novel Musta satu was published in spring 2015.

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Kjell Askildsen

Kjell Askildsen (f. 1929) debuterte med novellesamlingen Heretter følger jeg deg helt hjem i 1953. Askildsen har fått Kritikerprisen to ganger, for novellesamlingene Thomas F's siste nedtegnelse til almenheten (1983) og Et stort øde landskap (1991). Han har også blitt tildelt blant annet Aschehougprisen, Doblougprisen og Brages hederspris. Sommeren 2006 kåret Dagbladet novellesamlingen Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten til den beste norske boken utgitt de siste 25 årene. Kjell Askildsens bøker er oversatt til over 20 språk, blant dem engelsk, tysk, fransk og italiensk.

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Jim Ashilevi

Jim Ashilevi is an Estonian novelist, playwright and poet.

He first gained recognition with his debut play Nagu poisid vihma käes (Like Boys in the Rain) which was praised for its original juxtaposition of poetic imagery and violence — a haunting interrogation of the essence of masculinity. At just twenty years of age, the play won him some of Estonia's highest playwriting awards and positioned him on the literary map as a key voice of his generation.

He went on to publish long and short-form prose and poetry. To date, his body of work includes two coming-of-age novels, Ma olen elus olemise tunne (I Am the Feeling of Being Alive) and Kehade mets (Forest of Flesh), as well as two non-fiction books on theatre.

Ashilevi is also a game

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Ulf Danielsson

Ulf Danielsson (f. 1964) är professor i teoretisk fysik och har varit dekan och vicerektor vid Uppsala universitet.

Danielsson växte upp i Ludvika och studerade fysik vid Uppsala universitet. Han doktorerade i teoretisk fysik vid Princeton University med David J. Gross (sedermera Nobelpristagare) som handledare, varefter han tillbringade en tid vid CERN. Hans forskningsintressen kretsar främst kring strängteori och kosmologi. År 2008 mottog han Göran Gustafssons pris ”för sin forskning om partikelfysikens strängteori, där han bland annat nått uppmärksammade resultat gällande olika typer av svarta hål som ryms inom teorin.”

Förutom flitig produktion av fackartiklar förekommer han ofta i populärvetenskapliga sammanhang, exempelvis i tidskriften

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Hjalmar Bergman

Hjalmar Bergman was a Swedish writer and playwright.

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

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Ivar Lo-Johansson

Ivar Lo-Johansson (23 February 1901, Ösmo - 11 April 1990, Stockholm) was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school.

He described the situation of the Swedish land-workers, statare, in his novels, short stories and journalism, which encouraged the adoption of certain land reforms in Sweden. He also caused much controversy with his features on old-age pensioners, Gypsies and other non-privileged people.

Lo-Johansson is however best known for his vivid recollections of the life in Swedish trade-unionist and literary circles of the twenties, thirties and forties. He also continued throughout his long life to insist that literature should face the world from the under-dog's perspective.

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