Gösta Berling in the UK
The new translation of The Saga of Gösta Berling by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf has now been published in the UK by Penguin Classics.
February 2011
Swedish Immigrants Tell Their Stories
A new book by Oregon writer Lars Nordström examines Swedish immigration to the United States in the post-Vietnam War era. Ten immigrants — five women and five men — share their stories of how they came to leave their native country and settle in the Pacific Northwest.
A Swedish Tiger
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is one of Sweden’s leading young writers, and his novel Montecore has now been published by Knopf. The book was translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Read more about this “dazzlingly inventive novel.”