Swedish Literature

Sweden ranks third in the list of countries with most Nobel Prize laureates in literature. Famous Swedish writers include Astrid Lindgren, Gustaf Fröding, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Vilhelm Moberg, and August Strindberg.

When the Cranes Fly South
The Sisters
The Colony
Jävla karlar
Liken vi begravde
Hidden in Memories (The Åre Murders #3)
The Distinctly Competent District Councillor
The Couples Trip
The Details
El mentalista (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #1)
Vitön.
The Mountain King (The Asker, #1)
Spindeln (Joona Linna, #9)
The Divorce
Kult (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #2)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
A Man Called Ove
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Let the Right One In
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
Anxious People
Doctor Glas
The Brothers Lionheart
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Kallocain
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik WikingThe Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta MagnussonLagom by Niki BrantmarkNorwegian Wood by Lars MyttingLagom by Linnea Dunne
Scandinavian Lifestyle Books
53 books — 34 voters
Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael NiemiEn man som heter Ove by Fredrik BackmanLyckan (Het geluk)  by Ivar Lo-JohanssonThe Dog by Kerstin EkmanNotre besoin de consolation est impossible à rassasier by Stig Dagerman
Swedish books I read
28 books — 6 voters

Egenmäktigt förfarande by Lena AnderssonKorparna by Tomas BannerhedPopular Music from Vittula by Mikael NiemiUnderdog by Torbjörn FlygtSvinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski
August Prize Fiction Category Winners
32 books — 14 voters
Låt den rätte komma in by John Ajvide LindqvistWolf Winter by Cecilia EkbäckThe Swimmer by Joakim ZanderThe Bachelorette Party by Camilla StenWe Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal
Authors Born in Sweden
14 books — 5 voters


Margareta Magnusson
His snickarbod (Swedish for "toolshed") gradually became what I believe today is called a "man cave." In Swedish we also now sometimes call it mansdagis-- a male kindergarten, which makes me smile and which feels like an entirely appropriate word. ...more
Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

Benjamin Franklin
A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on which our religion is founded — such as the fall of our first parents by eating an apple, the coming of Christ to repair the mischief, his miracles and suffering, etc. When he had finished an Indian orator stood up to thank him. ‘What you have told us,’ says he, ‘is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all i ...more
Benjamin Franklin, Remarks Concerning the Savages

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