Niklas Rådström
Niklas Rådström (b. 1953) is one of Sweden’s most prominent authors. He has since his debut in 1975 developed a rich and multifaceted body of work, encompassing poetry, novels, essays, drama, and screenplays—including Suzanne Osten’s The Mozart Brothers and Speak! It’s So Dark, as well as Jan Troell’s multi–Guldbagge Award-winning and Golden Globe–nominated Everlasting Moments. He has received numerous accolades, among them the August Prize in 1992 for the novel While Time Is Thinking of Something Else.
Books by Niklas Rådström
The Last Witness
Niklas Rådström
New riveting novel by one of Sweden’s foremost literary voicesYear 88 AD, half a century has passed since Yeshua walked through the gates of Jerusalem during that fateful Passo ver. Nearly all who followed him are gone, persecuted and killed for carr…
The Dreams We Dream Together
Niklas Rådström
The young environmental activist Bodil unexpectedly comes into contact with a research group that, using quantum mechanics and dreams, maps the future. In the labyrinth of mental time travel, she encounters visions of a world shaped by climate change…
Swedish title: Drömmarna vi tillsammans drömmer
Category: Fiction
A Marian Legend
Niklas Rådström
A young woman is left to die after being subjected to a gang rape by a horde of child soldiers. A museum curator in New York is asked to take over a deceased colleague’s work and becomes increasingly drawn into her life. The 16th-century German artis…
Swedish title: En Marialegend
Category: Fiction
The Book
Niklas Rådström
A solitary figure sits bent over a book, and as page after page fills with words and sentences, an entire world and a struggling humanity begins to take shape. The writer sends out three angels to bring order and justice among all those who themselve…
Swedish title: Boken
Category: Fiction
Stig.
Niklas Rådström
“One evening, a few hours after Stig Claesson had passed away, someone from TT called and told me. I was, of course, aware of how ill he had been and that death was near, and yet we are always just as unprepared when it finally arrives. The reporter…
Swedish title: Stig.
Category: Fiction
The Moon’s Confidant
Niklas Rådström
The one holding the pen in Niklas Rådström’s The Moon’s Confidant is Lorenzo Da Ponte—librettist for Mozart’s three most famous operas—born Jewish, ordained a Catholic priest, married and father of six, a poet, gambler and adventurer, a friend of Gia…
Swedish title: Månens Anförvant
Category: Fiction
A Handful of Rain
Niklas Rådström
We are prepared to do almost anything to keep life in those we love. We throw ourselves to the ground and try, with our bare hands, to stem the flow of blood from battered bodies. Again and again, we insist that what we have been told cannot be true,…
Swedish title: En handfull regn
Category: Fiction
The Guest
Niklas Rådström
In early summer 1857, H. C. Andersen sets out on a long European journey to many of the cities he had visited on earlier travels. In his luggage he carries his new novel To Be or Not to Be in three editions—Danish, German, and English. The most impor…
Swedish title: Gästen
Category: Fiction
As If Nothing Had Already Happened
Niklas Rådström
During a doctor’s visit on a summer morning, Niklas Rådström receives the unexpected news that he has a serious, acute blood cancer. Three days later, he undergoes his first chemotherapy treatment. As If Nothing Had Already Happened tells both the st…
Swedish title: Som har inget redan hänt
Category: Autofiction
Absinthe
Niklas Rådström
One early summer day, he is simply there—the blue tit chick that will come to be called Absinthe. Perhaps he has fallen from an overcrowded nest high in the tree’s crown, perhaps he has tried his wings too early. It is a small bundle of fluff with a…
Swedish title: Absint
Category: Fiction
