Editor: Sarah Death
Welcome! Välkomna!
Welcome to Swedish Book Review on the web! SBR was launched in 1983. It publishes two main issues every year. The main aim of SBR is to present Swedish literature to the English-speaking world. It carries translated extracts from the works of Swedish writers, often together with an introductory article.
2012:1 issue
The 2012:1 issue includes the first part of a new occasional series where leading translators pick texts they have always had a yearning to translate. Translator's Choice kicks off with Laurie Thompson's translation of some of Stig Dagerman's satirical poems. Eric Dickens provides an overview of the work of Lotta Lotass and presents his translation of an extract from The Third Flight Speed. Paul O'Mahony introduces his translation of an extract from Kjell Westö's Don't Go Out Alone Into the Night, and Sarah Death presents a translation from Jens Orback's While Others Were Celebrating Victory, including an introduction by the author. Kristina Sandberg's Giving Birth is introduced and translated by B. J. Epstein, and an impressive reviews section offers a great range of books for non-Swedish publishers looking for potential winners to back.
2011:2 issue
The 2011:2 issue includes translations of an extract from Daniel Sjölin's mischievous yet painful self-analysis The World's Last Novel, an extract from Klas Åmark's Neighbour of Evil, an essay on Selma Lagerlöf's classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, a report from a workshop on translating Jonas Hassen Khemiri, a brief history of the first 25 years of SELTA, and selections from a new poetry suite by Ingela Strandberg.
2011:1 issue
Our 2011:1 issue features extracts from Waste, which won the 2010 August Prize for Sigrid Combüchen; there are two newer authors to discover (Jonas Karlsson, one of Sweden's busiest actors, and Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo, a Finland-Swedish writer). We also present Anna Paterson's interview with Henrik Berggren on his new biography of Olof Palme, and our reporters bring you their impressions of the 2010 Gothenburg Book Fair.
2010:2 issue
Our 2010:2 issue features one of Sweden's foremost crime writers, Håkan Nesser; one of the doyennes of Swedish literary fiction, Agneta Pleijel; the work of three Swedish poets - the witty esoteric games of Göran Printz-Påhlson, the warm social conscience and meditation on ageing offered by Ragnar Thoursie, and a Sapphic voyage through the landscape of the imagination from Eva-Stina Byggmästar. There are also tributes to the lives of Printz-Påhlsson and Thoursie.
Bestsellers from Sweden
This month's bestseller lists from Sweden (provided by Svensk bokhandel):
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Current Issue: 2012:1
- Stig Dagerman, Stig Dagerman's Satirical Poems
- Eric Dickens, Lotta Lotass: Experimental Author of Fiction and Drama
- Lotta Lotass, from The Third Flight Speed
- Kjell Westö, from Don't Go Out Alone Into the Night
- Jens Orback, from While Others Were Celebrating Victory
- Kristina Sandberg, from Giving Birth
- Bookshelf
- Just Out and Coming Up
- News and Views