Authors
Johan Rundberg
Johan Rundberg debuted as a children’s book author in 2001. His books have previously been translated into 13 languages. For The Night Raven he was awarded the August Prize 2021 in the category Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Book of the Year. In 2023, he received the Astrid Lindgren Prize. A Dan…
Donia Saleh
Donia Saleh, born 1996 in Uppsala, Sweden, is a writer and critic based in Stockholm. Saleh has an MFA in creative writing from the HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design at the University of Gothenburg. Her essays and reviews appear in national Swedish publications and she also teaches in the creativ…
Johanna Schreiber
Johanna Schreiber (b. 1986) is an author and journalist. She has written children’s books, YA novels and feelgood for adults that has sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden alone. Different Than All Other Nights is her first upmarket novel, and her first book with Wahlström & Widstrand.
Kicki Sehlstedt
Kicki Sehlstedt (b. 1975) is born and raised in Bohuslän on the Swedish West Coast. She works as a journalist, criminologist, author and a TV producer. In both fiction and documentaries, she centers her works around the consequences of a crime – for both victims, the perpetrator, and the relatives.
Gun-Britt Sundström
Gun-Britt Sundström (b. 1945) works as an author, critic and translator. Her debut came in 1966, and she’s so far published 16 books, whereof six are children’s books. Engagement was published in 1976, and has become a modern classic. Since the 1990’s, Gun-Britt Sundström has established herself as…
Bo Svernström
Bo Svernström (b. 1964) has had a long career as a journalist at Aftonbladet, one of Sweden’s largest newspapers. His first novel Victims (2018) debuted on Sweden’s biggest retailer Akademibokhandeln’s Paperback Bestseller list at #1 and spent six weeks on the national Bestseller list’s Top 10. His…
Anna Takanen
Anna Takanen (b. 1968) studied theatre before forging a career as an actor and theatrical director. In 2015, she wrote and directed Fosterlandet, a critically-acclaimed play about her family’s story and the fate of the war children, a sell-out in both Finland and Sweden. Her five-year tenure as arts…
Anna Tell
Anna Tell (b. 1975) lives in Stockholm and is a political scientist and police superintendent, who has previously worked for the Swedish Armed Forces. She has over 25 years of experience of operative work within Sweden as well as internationally. First made famous for her 70,000 copy bestselling thr…
Ingrid Marie Thorslund
Ingrid Marie Thorslund has a background as a communication manager in the television industry, a secondary school teacher and a yoga teacher with her own studio. Thorslund was born and raised in Stockholm and now lives in Åre. Growing up in the 1970s, she spent a lot of time behind the curtain in th…
Göran Tunström
Göran Tunström (1937-2000) is one of the most read and loved loved authors in Sweden and considered one of the most important Swedish authors of the late 20th century. He was born in Sunne in the county of Värmland. Tunström has as been awarded a number of literary awards, including Svenska Dagblade…
