The Swedish Academy,founded in 1786 by King Gustav III,is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members,who are elected for life,comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia,it is best known as the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature,awarded in memory of the donor Alfred Nobel.
Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist known for the SCUM Manifesto,which she self-published in 1967,and her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968.
Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy.
Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation:for a narrative art,far-seeing in lands and ages,in the service of freedom.
Per Olov Enquist,also known as P. O. Enquist,was a Swedish author. He had worked as a journalist,playwright and novelist.
Göran Tunström was a Swedish author. He grew up in Sunne,Värmland County. Tunström's style is personal and intimate,and has a clear autobiographical tone. Although active as an established author for nearly four decades,it was particularly after his Juloratoriet was adapted as a movie in 1996 that he became widely known to the (Swedish) public. He participated in the Oslo International Poetry Festival.
Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault is a Swedish poet and writer. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019. In 2003,Frostenson was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France in recognition of her services to literature.
Knut Emil Ahnlund was a Swedish literary historian,writer,and member of the Swedish Academy.
Ellen Mattson is a Swedish writer. Her first fictional work to be published in English translation was Snow (2005),a historical novel set in the early 18th century.
Tua Birgitta Forsström is a Finland-Swedish writer who writes in Swedish. She was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998 for the poetry collection Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar. Forsström's work is known for its engagement with the Finnish landscape,travel and conflicts within relationships. She often uses quotations in her work,sometimes placing them directly into her poems and at other times using them as introductions or interludes in her sequences. She has used quotations from Egon Friedell,Ludwig Wittgenstein,Hermann Hesse and Friedrich Nietszche. In the collection After Spending a Night Among Horses (1997) Forsström uses quotations from the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker,they are placed as interludes in a sequence of pieces and sit alone on the page,without direct reference to their source on the page,leaving this to a Notes &Quotations section at the end of the book.
Samfundet De Nio is a Swedish literary society founded on 14 February 1913 in Stockholm by a testamentary donation from writer Lotten von Kraemer. The society has nine members who are elected for life. Its purpose is to promote Swedish literature,peace and women's issues. It mainly presents a number of literary awards. It was started as an alternative to the Swedish Academy and is often compared to its more noted cousin.
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel,Gösta Berling's Saga,at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature,which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally,she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish writer. He is the author of six novels,seven plays,and a collection of essays,short stories and plays. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. He has received the August Prize for fiction and a Village Voice Obie Award for best script. In 2017 he became the first Swedish writer to have a short story published in the New Yorker. Khemiri's novel The Family Clause (FSG) was awarded the French Prix Médicis and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Khemiri moved to New York in 2021 for a Cullman Fellowship at The New York Public Library and currently teaches in the Creative Writing program at NYU. In 2023 he was a Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bennington College.
The Faculty of Dreams is a 2006 novel by Swedish writer Sara Stridsberg. The main character of the narrative is the American radical feminist Valerie Solanas. The novel received the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2011 it was voted as the best Swedish novel from the 2000s (decade) in a poll held by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter,which involved one hundred Swedish critics,authors,journalists and publishers. The book has been translated into Danish,English,Finnish,French,Dutch,Norwegian,Polish,Serbian,Spanish and German.
Marie Hermanson is a Swedish writer and journalist. Many of her novels evoke fairy tales and myths,characterized by her sensually realist style. The Devil's Sanctuary,her first novel to be translated into English,appeared in 2013.
Ingela Strandberg is a Swedish poet,children's writer,novelist,playwright,translator,journalist and musician. She gained recognition with her novel Mannen som trodde att han var Fritiof Andersson in 1983.
Siri Margareta Augusta Suber,known as Margareta Suber,was a Swedish writer. She is best known as a novelist but was also a travel writer,translator,poet and children's writer.
Lina Wolff is a Swedish novelist,short story writer and translator.
Lars Lönnroth is a Swedish literary scholar.
Jean-Claude Arnault,known in Swedish media as kulturprofilen,is a French-Swedish convicted sex offender. He worked as a photographer and is the former artistic director of the cultural center Forum –Nutidsplats för kultur Stockholm.
