Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg, born in 1972, is a writer, playwright and former member of the Swedish Academy. Her first novel, Happy Sally, was published in 2004, and her break-through came two years later with the publication of The Faculty of Dreams, her second novel, the English translation of which was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2019. Her novels have been translated into 25 languages, and she has been shortlisted for the prestigious August Prize three times, including in 2012 for her collection of plays, Medealand and Other Plays. She lives in Stockholm.
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The Faculty of Dreams
"One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels" Katy…
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Hunter in Huskvarna
"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner" Christian House, Financial Times A…
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The Antarctica of Love
"Compassionate and complex" Financial Times "Stridsberg writes with chilling poise" New York Times "A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg's…
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The Gravity of Love
A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden's most exciting literary talents "I'll put my head…