Fiction

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.

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.”

Other Press has published The American Girl, a novel by Finnish author Monika Fagerholm (who writes in Swedish), translated by Katarina Tucker. “Crime mystery and gothic saga, social study and chronicle of the late sixties and early seventies, a portrait of the psyche of young girls on the cusp of sexual awakening, The American Girl is a bewitching glimpse of the human capacity for survival and for self-inflicted wounds.”