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140 Swedish classics in new English translations
svenska klassiker på engelska
New English translations of forgotten Swedish classics

Sweden's hidden classics, newly in English.

Strindberg's fishermen of the skerries and his Gothic Rooms, Almqvist's scandalous It Is Possible, Edith Södergran's poems, a miser's cursed slippers in Strindberg's Baghdad, the 1809 revolution that toppled a king, and Blanche's Paris of 1848. 140 books, many of them in English for the first time.

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The translator

One translator, one shelf of classics at a time.

Swedish literature in English usually means Strindberg's plays and Selma Lagerlöf. These are the books around them: Strindberg's stories and novels, Almqvist and Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Anne Charlotte Leffler and Charlotta Falkman, the Finland-Swedish modernists Edith Södergran and Arvid Mörne, Albert Engström's skerry tales, and the history of 1809. Now also Selma Lagerlöf's stories, Verner von Heidenstam, Hjalmar Söderberg and Hjalmar Bergman, Zacharias Topelius's historical novels, Runeberg, Ina Lange and Konni Zilliacus's emigrant stories.

AI-assisted translation, prepared and edited by Valentin Sarić. The translations are made from the Swedish originals, complete and unabridged. They are AI-assisted and still awaiting full human editorial review.