A cerebral novel that moves between the inside and outside of the literary world while tracing the boundary between lost language and creation. What begins as a ghostwriting assignment expands into questions of class, memory, and the effort to rediscover language itself.

A single ghostwriting job turns into a search for the origin of language and story.

A family novel about seven fathers and the memories that surround them, mixing humor with pain. Through the narrator’s voice, the distortions of family life gradually come into view.

A child’s memory sketches the strange shape of family life.

This biography presents Anders Zorn in full, beyond legend and reputation, by placing his life in historical context. It carefully balances artistic triumph with the cost behind it.

A mythic painter is reconsidered as a person in history.

This children’s novel braids love for an older brother with anger at bullying. Small acts gradually become a will to protect family.

The desire to protect an older brother sits at the center of the story.

児童文学作家。ハンナ・クリントハーゲとの共作『Vitsippor och pissråttor』で2023年のオーガスト賞児童書部門を受賞。

Hanna Klinthage’s illustrations give Oskar Kroon’s story a softer contour and emotional temperature. Her work supports the book’s shifts in feeling from the visual side.

The illustrations hold the story’s pain and tenderness together.

児童書の作家・イラストレーター。共作『Vitsippor och pissråttor』で2023年のオーガスト賞児童書部門を受賞。

Through four intertwined portraits, the novel quietly examines how memory shapes a life. Fragments of remembrance gather into the outline of a person.

Small details accumulate until a life comes into view.

This biography follows Maja Ekelöf’s life and writing, where labor, politics, and motherhood are tightly intertwined. It traces how a cleaner became a writer within a wider social history.

A cleaner’s life opens onto the shape of an era.

Two girls in a small town move through friendship, longing, and the awkwardness of growing up. The YA novel captures adolescence with both lightness and urgency.

An ordinary town becomes the backdrop for the intensity of adolescence.

A biographical feature film depicting the tensions between poet Sylvia Plath's creation and daily life. This is a work that brings the reader closer to the poet's inner self, as it depicts dreams, despair, and the struggles of creation in an intense yet vital style.

A biographical feature film depicting the tensions between poet Sylvia Plath's creation and daily life.

A book that cross-discusses the history of translation of diverse texts, from Dostoyevsky and Jane Austen to the present day. We visualize the invisible work of translators and reconsider the artistry and social significance of the act of translation.

A book that cross-discusses the history of translation of diverse texts, from Dostoyevsky and Jane Austen to the present day.

A story for children set at night. This work uses simple words to depict darkness and fear, and the growth and courage that arise from them, and delicately expresses the tremors of children's hearts.

A story for children set at night.

A full-length novel set in Gothenburg, it depicts complex human relationships in settings such as black clubs, taverns, and university libraries. A dense story centered around a love triangle surrounding a missing woman, intertwined with memories, desires, and dedication to literature.

A full-length novel set in Gothenburg, it depicts complex human relationships in settings such as black clubs, taverns, and university libraries.

Documentary literature that depicts the forced migration of the Sami through a combination of testimonies, photographs, maps, documents, and government documents. This work carefully compiles fragments of family history and community, quietly but powerfully illuminating the dark side of Swedish society.

Documentary literature that depicts the forced migration of the Sami through a combination of testimonies, photographs, maps, documents, and government documents.

A picture book that depicts secrets and small everyday adventures from a child's perspective. A work that fosters imagination and invites empathy with easy words and pictures.

A picture book that depicts secrets and small everyday adventures from a child's perspective.

A picture book that delicately depicts children's secrets and small adventures. Expressing the richness of everyday life through pictures and words, stimulating children's sensibilities.

A picture book that delicately depicts children's secrets and small adventures.

A nonfiction book that gathers the voices of residents of the small Swedish village of Osebol and records the life and changes of the place. The individual testimonies accumulate into a social history of the countryside.

Through the voices of villagers, the time of a place comes into view.

A nonfiction book that overlays the mystery of the eel with the author's relationship with his father, expanding into reflections on origins, fate, and death. Scientific history and a personal story meet naturally.

One fish becomes the key to questions about life and death.

A story about a girl on a summer island who moves toward adulthood while repairing a boat. Loneliness, friendship, and family pain rise gently against the backdrop of the sea.

A summer by the sea quietly marks the end of childhood.

Taking its title from a Northern Sami word for land or earth, this epic novel in verse follows two Sami families. Through voices crossing generations, it portrays memories fractured by borders, assimilation policy, schooling, and development, asking how lost land and culture may be reclaimed.

Voices dispossessed of land sing family and collective memory back from the margins of silence.

This nonfiction work examines the Swedish famine of the late nineteenth century through climate, political decisions, poverty, and the history of migration. Combining individual testimony with social history, it traces how hunger helped shape modern Sweden.

The record of hunger reflects not a remote past but social choices that still reach into the present.

This picture book centers on Gropen, a rough play place behind the school, where children's imagination meets adults' concern for safety. With humorous narration and images close to a child's voice, it explores the freedom of play, the negotiation of risk, and a world not entirely decided by adults.

The places adults dislike most can become secret kingdoms where children enlarge the world.

A novel by Johannes Anyuru that uses De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar to explore story and memory, with society in view.

A story where story meets memory.

A biography by Fatima Bremmer that uses Ett jävla solsken: En biografi om Ester Blenda Nordström to explore women and journalists, with swedish authors in view.

A story where women meets journalists.

A novel by Sara Lundberg that uses Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill to explore story and memory, with society in view.

A story where story meets memory.

A novel about love, self-deception, and the desire to be desired, where reason and passion collide and reveal the power dynamics of obsession.

Love slowly takes hold beneath the language of reason.

A scientific reexamination of the Andrée expedition tragedy that blends personal obsession with archival and forensic research.

Uusma follows the Andrée expedition into the archives and the Arctic.

A gentle picture book that uses poetic language and small everyday moments to give shape to a child’s feelings and imagination.

Selma’s summer holiday becomes a quiet story about imagination, loneliness, and friendship.

A gentle picture book that uses poetic language and small everyday moments to give shape to a child’s feelings and imagination.

Selma’s summer holiday becomes a quiet story about imagination, loneliness, and friendship.

A deeply personal memoir that follows a father’s passage from Auschwitz and reflects on memory, loss, and postwar Sweden.

Tracing a father’s life brings the weight of history into view.

A substantial biography of Raoul Wallenberg that follows his life alongside the history of rescue during the Holocaust.

One diplomat’s choice affected countless lives.

A playful illustrated book about letters, typefaces, and readability that explains the history and function of the alphabet for both children and adults.

Learn the alphabet by playing with it.

A novel of rural life and coming of age that follows a boy growing up amid family conflict, isolation, and a hard, beautiful landscape.

A stark coming-of-age novel set in rural Sweden.

A work of narrative nonfiction that reconstructs prewar Vienna through the family letters sent to a Jewish boy who had escaped to Sweden.

A history of Vienna and exile told through family letters.

Four girls confront changing bodies, identity, and harassment, and then discover a mysterious power that lets them become boys at night.

A sharp coming-of-age story about transformation and identity.

A historical novel that overlays wartime flight with the destinies of two women. The story of movement and survival unfolds in a grave but luminous style.

On the road to escape, two lives cross quietly.

A biography that follows the author’s mother through the upheavals of twentieth-century Europe. Revolution, exile, marriage, and war are bound into one woman’s story.

One mother’s life becomes Europe’s history.

A young-adult novel in which Maja searches for a place to belong while coping with family absence and bodily pain. Its humor carries a sharp loneliness.

A bruised everyday life slowly forms a self.

De fattiga i Łódź is a novel that explores poverty in Łódź and the shadow of history and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through poverty in Łódź and the shadow of history.

Att överleva dagen is a literary work that explores what it means to get through the day and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through what it means to get through the day.

Att överleva dagen is a literary work that explores what it means to get through the day and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through what it means to get through the day.

Skriv om och om igen is a children’s literature that explores writing and trying again and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through writing and trying again.

Skriv om och om igen is a children’s literature that explores writing and trying again and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through writing and trying again.

Skriv om och om igen is a children’s literature that explores writing and trying again and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through writing and trying again.

Skriv om och om igen is a children’s literature that explores writing and trying again and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through writing and trying again.

A memoir that traces the road from youth to a literary life through fragments of memory. Illness, family, politics, and a stubborn devotion to writing accumulate into the portrait of a single life.

The farther memory goes, the sharper the shape of a life becomes.

A large-format visual biography that follows Ingmar Bergman's life and directing career through photographs and testimony. It builds a three-dimensional portrait that reaches beyond film history into the stage and private life.

Photographs become Bergman's own chronology.

A photo book that views Bergman's world from the perspective of the photographer who documented it. Film memory emerges through a sequence of striking still images.

Each photograph speaks from behind the scenes of the films.

An adventure tale about Sally Jones, a gorilla who cannot speak and travels the world through voyages and farewells. The unfamiliar landscapes and careful emotional buildup leave a lasting afterglow.

What will Sally Jones find at the end of the journey?

Set in a ward where people face the end of life together, the novel quietly observes aging, mortality, and memory. Its restrained prose carries a deep question about how to face the final stage of life.

What does a person reconsider while waiting for the end?

A biography centered on Mayakovsky that traces the crossing of culture and politics in post-revolutionary Russia. Based on careful research, it shows how the poet’s intensity and the violence of the era shaped one another.

Through the poet’s life, the heat and darkness of revolutionary Russia come into view.

A quiet search picture book in which the sibling relationship shifts from spread to spread. The pleasure comes from both the strange landscape and the joy of finding what was hidden in it.

There is something to find in every corner of the page.

Through the viewpoint of a girl growing up in an immigrant family, the novel depicts social instability against a background of poverty and alcoholism at home. Humor is present, but the story still brings the pain of survival and dignity sharply to the surface.

Behind the humor, the children’s lives slowly fall apart.

A nonfiction work that follows the history of the qin and the depth of Chinese culture around it. Through the author’s own journey and learning, it builds a vivid portrait of music, ritual, and the life of the educated class.

Through one instrument, the deeper layers of Chinese culture come into view.

A young adult novel about a boy drawn into a political climate of tension and violence, then forced to flee because of his name. It exposes the fear of crowd psychology and manipulated language through a tense, breathless plot.

One name is enough to drag an ordinary boy into political turmoil.

Set in 1970s Finland, the novel follows a girl caught between social distance and private desire. In an atmosphere of adult expectations, the search for a place to belong accumulates quietly.

A girl’s gaze slowly redraws the shape of the world around her.

Told by the daughter, the book traces a true survival story from the Warsaw Ghetto. The weight of persecution and the act of surviving emerge through a spare and direct voice.

A quiet tracing of memory after survival.

As Steve faces the possibility of seeing his father again, his thoughts and feelings gradually unfold. Text and image work together in a restrained coming-of-age story.

A father absent for years suddenly becomes present tense.

As Steve faces the possibility of seeing his father again, his thoughts and feelings gradually unfold. Text and image work together in a restrained coming-of-age story.

A father absent for years suddenly becomes present tense.

Reworking the figure from Doctor Glas, the novel recasts Pastor Gregorius through his own inner life and moral distortions. It can be read both as historical fiction and as a study of self-deception and desire.

One summer in a pastor’s life reveals a very different face.

Covering European intellectual history from 1492 to 1918, the book moves between broad historical shifts and the thinkers who shaped them. It closes the second volume of a two-part account of nature, society, and human thought.

A single volume that surveys a long arc of intellectual history.

The story follows Elias, a boy on the edge of a small world, with humor and a quiet tension. Childhood exaggerations and fears are handled with a gentle, attentive voice.

Elias’s anxieties gradually come into focus.

An ensemble novel about how chance and choice affect the lives of its characters. Small events and tangled relationships give the story a quiet but tense Nordic atmosphere.

Small chances change lives.

An essayistic and scholarly work that blends philosophical and scientific perspectives on life and existence. It offers a multi-angle discussion of biology, ethics, and how humans understand living systems.

An exploration of life and ethics.

A YA novel about a girl confronting her mother's illness and the pressures of family life. It depicts grief, loneliness, and friendship with a delicate touch that resonated with many young readers.

A coming-of-age story under the shadow of illness.

A fantastical and sometimes violent novel about love, loneliness, and people living on the margins of society. Its narrative blends strangeness with sympathy.

A strange, sympathetic story of love.

A historical study that reexamines Gustav Vasa's rule and reputation. It compares his achievements and authoritarian tendencies to show how his place in history remains contested.

A historical study asking whether he was a founding father or a tyrant.

A children's book that gently handles death and parting. It is valued for making the process of accepting loss understandable to young readers.

A story that helps children face parting gently.

A social novel about a working-class family, collapse, and the possibility of renewal.

A family under pressure, and what survives.

An essayistic journey through Swedish cemeteries and the meanings of memory.

Swedish cemeteries as a map of memory.

An essayistic journey through Swedish cemeteries and the meanings of memory.

Swedish cemeteries as a map of memory.

An essayistic journey through Swedish cemeteries and the meanings of memory.

Swedish cemeteries as a map of memory.

A YA novel told from alternating viewpoints, following teenage loneliness, love, sex, and identity.

Two lonely teens, one sharp-edged love story.

A coming-of-age novel from northern Sweden, shaped by music, desire, and the search for identity.

Northern Sweden, music, and the first rush of adulthood.

A major history of the Black Death in Europe, from its outbreak to its social and cultural aftermath.

Europe under the Black Death.

A picture book in which Gittan gets lost on a field trip and discovers courage among the grey wolves.

A lost child learns to be brave.

A historical novel about Struensee and the political intrigue of the Danish royal court.

Power and desire at a royal court.

A nonfiction study of English as an island language, a world language, and a language of trends.

English from island tongue to global language.

A young adult novel about Kim, violence, affection, and the struggle to grow up.

Violence, affection, and the strain of adolescence.

An intense family novel about a bedridden girl, her hidden power, and the sisters whose lives she watches and judges.

A hidden power turns family resentment into a story.

An intellectual history of modernity that weighs ethics, science, technology, art, politics, and religion.

Modernity seen through ideas and conflict.

A teenage novel about friendship, identity, and the risky choices that come with growing up.

Growing up means making dangerous choices.

A novel of strange cohabitation in Västerbotten, where two brothers ravaged by illness and a middle-aged woman who stays with them create an unsettling household. Humor and dread, bodily ugliness and narrative force, are twisted tightly together.

Despite the sweet title, the world unravels in strange and unsettling ways.

A practical cultural history that traces Swedish garden culture through manor houses, gardens, rural plots, and urban green spaces in Sörmland. It introduces gardening, plants, decoration, and changing ways of life through abundant source material.

A garden is also a cultural memory shaped over centuries.

A children’s and young-adult novel that follows Orge, a Jewish youth who escapes Nazi Germany and moves through camps, Prague, and Stockholm, where he meets Annie. Through that encounter, it turns the memory of war and discrimination into a readable story of hope and survival.

The story of the girl who would not kiss is also a story of surviving war.

A memoir that follows three generations of women in China and turns the twentieth century into a family history moving through war, revolution, and the Cultural Revolution.

A memoir that reads twentieth-century China through three generations of women.

A four-volume study that treats Swedish music as a long history, tracing institutions, styles, and social change across a broad cultural field.

A substantial multi-volume history of Swedish music.

A readable retelling of key New Testament episodes through the frame story of the Roman boy Titus, turning biblical material into narrative momentum.

The Bible retold through the viewpoint of the boy Titus.

A sweeping history of Sweden's 17th century, centered on Erik Dahlbergh and the wider world around him.

A wide-angle view of Sweden's age of empire.

A youth novel about John-John, Elisabeth, and first love, race, and class in suburban Stockholm.

First love on the edge of Stockholm.

A novel seen through the eyes of Axel, a boy whose grandfather seems trapped outside time during one summer. In the bright light of the Swedish summer, humor and unease about memory and aging overlap.

The scenes of summer become a maze of memory.

A large anthology of texts and images from Swedish intellectual history, arranged so that readers can move across periods and themes. It is scholarly in ambition but still open to general readers.

A readable cross-section of Swedish intellectual history.

An autobiographical work that follows childhood memories between the Canadian wheat fields and a farm in Sweden. It is a fierce portrait of a child growing up under an abusive father and in poverty.

Childhood memory rises up with harsh clarity.

A novel about Zackarias' childhood in late-1920s Sweden, told through voices, humor, and sadness.

A childhood world assembled from many voices.

A nonfiction book that traces the history, growth, and cultural meaning of Chinese characters.

A cultural history of Chinese characters.