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 lan…
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 imaginat…
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York. He made a celebrated d…
Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si …
Kaj Korkea-Aho (s. 1983) on tuttu radiosta, tv:stä ja musiikkimaailmasta. Opiskellessaan maisteriksi Turussa hän elätti itsensä radiokoomikkona sekä tv-juontajana ja -käsikirjoittajana. Nyt Korkea-aho…
Philip Teir (s. 1980 Pietarsaaressa) on Hufvudstadsbladetin kulttuuritoimituksen päällikkö, joka kirjoittaa itse mm. kirjallisuus-, musiikki- ja televisiokritiikkiä. Hän on toimittanut useita kirjalli…
Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret East…
Lisa Ridzén (b.1988) is a doctoral student in sociology, researching masculinity norms in the rural communities of the Swedish far north, where she herself was raised and now lives in a small village …
