Swedish Book Review : Older Extracts

Editor: Sarah Death

Older Extracts

This section of the website aims to give a flavour of the printed journal by reproducing some of the editorial material, reviews, announcements and reports on book fairs and congresses.

This page lists extracts from issues 1998:1 - 2004:1.
More recent extracts can be found here.

From the 2004:1 issue
	Sarah Death, Harry Martinson: A Significant Literary Centenary
	Ann-Marie Vinde, A Translator's Look at Flowering Nettle, Harry Martinson's Nässlorna blomma
	Laurie Thompson, The Gothenburg Book Fair 2003

From the 2003 supplement on Food and Drink
	Birgitta Thompson, Food, Glorious Food!
	Laurie Thompson, Sweden and Alcohol

From the 2003:2 issue
	Theodor Kallifatides, from A New Land Outside my Window
	Hjalmar Söderberg, Spleen

From the 2002 Supplement on Translation
	Lena Fries Gedin, *Dunkare, Klonken och den gyllene Kvicken: translating the Harry Potter* phenomenon into Swedish**
	Linda Schenck, The translator as private eye: the uses of information technology for the language detective

From the 2002:2 Issue
	Mikael Niemi, from Rock Music in Vittula

From the 2002:1 Issue
	Birgitta Thompson, Astrid Lindgren: Farewell and thank you

From the 2001 Supplement on Swedish Crime Writers
	Editorial by Charlotte Whittingham
	Charlotte Whittingham, Drawing Rooms to Drawing Blanks – A Story of Crime

From the 2001:2 Issue
	Barbro S Osher, Europe versus San Francisco at the Poetry Festival

From the 2001:1 Issue
	Peter Graves, Göran Printz-Påhlson

From the 2000:2 Issue
	Joan Tate: A Survey of her Life and Work
	Roger Greenwald, Promoting Scandinavian books in English

From the 2000:1 Issue
	Sarah Death, Johanna Ekström: Explorer in Words and Pictures
	Sarah Death, Kerstin Ekman Seminar

From the 1999:2 Issue
	Marianne Bargum, Marketing and Distributing Finland-Swedish Books in Scandinavia

From the 1998:2 Issue
	Laurie Thompson, Introduction to Björn Larsson and his work
	Kerstin Gustafsson, Feeling ones way as a translator

From the 1998:1 Issue
	Carina Burman, Faking the Eighteenth Century

Current Issue: 2008: 1

Mikael Engström, The Ice Dragon
Inger Edelfeldt, Secret Face
Siv Widerberg & Mats Andersson, you're the cutest ;-)
Jenny Nordberg & Nuri Kino, The Reluctant Reporter: The Benefactors
Helen Sigeland, Translation Support is Back!

Latest Supplement: 2006
Writing for Young Adults

Girls Take Over in Swedish Young Adult Fiction
Maria Nikolajeva
from Little Marie
Mats Wahl
from The Stars Are Shining on the Ceiling
Johanna Thydell
from Lina's Noctury
Emma Hamberg
from Sandor Slash Ida
Sara Kadefors
from Not a Greek God, Exactly
Katarina Kieri
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Birgitta Fransson
The Marsh Award
Patricia Crampton
from A Sk8er's Diary
Andreas Soneryd
from When Nobody is Looking
Karin Holmlund
from Dogge
Mikael Engström
from Life According to Rosa and a Boy Called Ville
Måns Gahrton & Johan Unenge
from Habib: The Meaning of Life
Douglas Foley
Henning Mankell on African Poverty and Aids: Not in Front of the Children?
Anna Paterson
Book Review: Outside In. Children's Books in Translation
Marlaine Delargy