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ageNcy 2013 

Fiction

Fiction 

Dimma över Darjeeling 

Darjeeling Mist 

By Mikael Bergstrand 

August 2013, 395 pages 

Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus 

Rights sold to: 

Aschehoug, Norway • Modtryk, Denmark 

Bazar, Finland • Btb, Germany 

Option publishers: 

Piemme, Italy • Gaïa, France 

La Campana, Catalan • Alfaguara, Spain 

Signatuur, the Netherlands 

Darjeeling Mist 

Once again we get to enter the adventures of Göran 

Borg and Yogendra ‘Yogi’ Singh Thakur, this 

time they take us from the bustling Delhi life to 

the mist-clad mountains of Darjeeling. 

Göran Borg is back on Swedish soil and back 

in his old tracks. The revolutionary trip to 

India and his love affair with Preeti feel little 

more than distant memories, and he struggles 

with a general sense of anxiety and failure. 

But soon it is time, finally, for Yogi to marry 

the love of his life, Lakshmi, and Göran 

sees it as an excuse to leave town and some 

unresolved conflicts behind him. And Yogi 

is happy to see him and get some assistance 

with the big wedding preparations. 

To finance the wedding Yogi has bought a 

prosperous tea estate in Darjeeling for his 

father-in-law’s money, and Göran goes with 

him to inspect it. But the seemingly easy 

deal with a quick refund turns out to be a 

con; there is indeed an estate, but in its state 

of decay it will not see profit any time soon. 

Yogi is defeated, without money he cannot 

marry Lakshmi, and he cannot return home 

to Delhi to his mother either. And Göran 

has to rush back to Sweden; otherwise he 

will lose his job. Once again, Göran lets the 

fear get the better of him. But what kind of 

friend is he to leave his best mate alone on a 

mismanaged tea estate to drink away his sorrows? 

At the airport Göran changes his mind 

and goes back to help Yogi, and together with 

the enterprising Lakshmi, who has travelled 

alone all across the country to see her beloved 

Yogi, they manage to turn things around 

at the estate and make their future look a lot 

brighter. 

Following the success with Delhis vackraste 

händer, Mikael Bergstrand is back with a 

new entertaining and adventurous novel 

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Mikael Bergstrand 

Mikael Bergstrand is a journalist and author 

from Malmö, in the south of Sweden. 

In 2007 he moved with his family to India 

and lived in New Delhi for almost four 

years, sharing his time between travelling, 

writing books and reporting on life and 

politics from the world’s largest democracy. 

Since 2011 he lives in Sweden again, but 

still travels frequently to India. 

In 2011, Bergstrand published his first book 

at Norstedts, Delhis vackraste händer/ 

The Most Beautiful Hands in Delhi, which 

became a great success with more than 

92 000 copies sold to date. It has so far 

been translated to nine languages. 

about prejudice and egoism, about getting 

out of old habits and about courage, loyalty 

and friendship. 

Press voices for Delhis vackraste händer: 

“Bridget Jones goes 52-year-old flabby football 

nerd” Tara 

“Yogendra Singh Thakur, I would gladly meet 

him again.” Sydsvenskan 

“Incredibly funny book. I appoint it the next 

‘Centenarian-success’.” Radio P4, Värmland 

“It is so joyful and entertaining to read. You 

are taken along on a delightful journey /.../ 

With a smile on your face you join Göran on 

his adventures.” Radio P4, Halland 

“the novel is a delightful comedy with 

touches of realism. Mikael Bergstrand is a 

master of dialogue, which characterises both 

Swedes and Indians and gives local colour to 

both their respective countries.” 

Swedish Book Review (UK) 

“Mikael Bergstrand writes flawlessly and 

straightforward, and he also has the environment 

to place his detailed descriptions in, 

as he himself has lived and worked in New 

Delhi for nearly four years. Delhis vackraste 

händer stands therefore as a glorious summer 

holiday fiction with something to say, 

no matter where or how your holiday goes.” 

Jyllands-Posten, four stars (DK) 

“Obviously he knows Delhi well and loves the 

city and its people. It is a pleasant, entertaining 

and certainly not stupid story. It’s fun for 

once to see the world through pink-coloured 

glasses from Malmo.” Politiken (DK) 

“highly action-packed, readable and humorous 

/.../ with charm and good storytelling.” 

Alt for damene (NO) 






Fiction 

Vi ses igen i nästa dröm 

We’ll meet again 

by Carl-Henning Wijkmark 

September 2013, 139 pages 



Møller Forlag, Denmark 


Rode Kamer, the Netherlands • Pelikanen, Norway 

Éditions Cénomane, France • Iperborea, Italy 

We’ll meet again 

Frank Larson, a Swedish university professor 

who has lived and worked in the United States 

most of his life, visits the old country to participate 

in an academic symposium in the town where 

he attended university when he was young. 

The morning after his arrival, tired and jetlagged 

after his long trip, he takes off for the 

conference hall where he is supposed to give 

one of the first speeches. There is a good size 

crowd in the room but none of the colleagues 

he expected to see are there; a young 

man is standing at the podium and he starts 

lecturing on an entirely different topic to an 

audience of tie-clad students. 

Confused, Frank leaves and when he can’t relocate 

his hotel, only a vacant lot where the 

hotel used to be, he suspects that he has had 

some kind of stroke. As he walks through 

the city he realizes that something has happened 

that has deprived him of his place in 

time; he has lost his era. He decides to try 

to accept this transfer to what turns out to 

be the fall of 1924. He refrains from finding 

a doctor because he’s afraid that he wil be 

taken into custody for being crazy. Cell 

phone and credit cards, passport and money 

are useless, his luggage has disappeared with 

the hotel. All he owns are the clothes on his 

back, a watch and a briefcase with the manuscript 

for the lecture he was going to give ninety 

years later, in addition a few rings and 

cufflinks that he immediately pawns. For the 

money he buys a new suitcase, a few clothes 

and a ticket for the express train to Rome. 

A number of surprises soon sneak up on the 

reader, and the journey takes us to, among 

other places, an archeological dig in Spain, 

where the first-person narrator also conducts 

some mental archeology and, inspired 

by two women, one mythical and the other 

real, steps back into his own personal origin, 

the beginning before the beginning of his 

existence. 

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Carl-Henning Wijkmark 

Carl-Henning Wijkmark, born 1934, has 

been called a cosmopolitan and a literary 

outsider. His novels, essays, and plays have 

received wide international acclaim, and 

he has at times been more appreciated abroad 

than at home, with classics like 

Jägarna på Karinhall. 

In his works he often discusses issues like 

humanism and art, the role of the intellectuals, 

as well as political and social issues. 

In 2007 he received the August Prize for 

Stundande natten/Approaching Night. 

With Vi ses igen i nästa dröm Carl-Henning 

Wijkmark returns with his first novel since 

he received the August Prize in 2007. 

Press voices for Stundande natten: 

”Wijkmark’s prose – so stern and clear, so 

decorously sensual – accompanies these 

events without flamboyant gestures. He avoids 

superfluous description but never shuns 

elegant allusions or precise references. Every 

word is carefully chosen although the book 

is about one thing only – ‘a special sensitivity 

to what lies hidden on the other side of the 

veil.’” Dagens Nyheter 

“Warm, beautiful and a bit melancholy. 

Deeply human. Supremely credible. A consolation 

and a reminder.” 

Norrköpings Tidningar 

“Wijkmark describes the process of decay 

with such precision and objective authenticity 

that the book appears to have been 

written beyond the grave – an eerie feeling.” 

Svenska Dagbladet 

“that Swedish Wijkmark is a grand, mature 

writer, is clear on every page of Stundande 

natten, which continues to fascinate and never 

stands still in the twilight between life 

and death. /…/ Excellent!” Berlingske (DK) 

“Wijkmark’s death cabaret is world literature. 

At the same time sober narrating and 

asserting in the ambition to as accurately as 

possible live – or rather die – into the more 

stringent conditions that the modern death, 

which contains ‘relief’ but not a lot of consolation, 

has to offer. What an insight into the 

mind’s detours, and what superior language! 

/…/ But first of all a moving literary work of 

a reflecting person’s long farewell.” 

Politiken (DK) 






Fiction 

Det vita huset i Simpang 

The White House in Simpang 

by Hanna Nordenhök 


Senior Editor: Håkan Bravinger 

The White House in Simpang 

“I write to open the black book, over and over. 

There is no return from it. The book is like forgetfulness, 

a blank and impenetrable lake, a water 

grave.” 

Hanna Nordenhök’s novel takes place in two 

very different places, and time signals the 

breaks. In Stockholm Kerstin, who suffers 

from dementia, sinks deeper and deeper into 

herself while getting regular visits from her 

daughter, who one day finds a black notebook 

in her belongings. 

For the younger woman the black book becomes 

a road back in time, to a past that 

mostly takes place in Indonesia in the 1930s, 

in what was then the Dutch East Indies. 

With the help of the notebook she can tell 

the story of what really happened in the 

white house in Simpang. There is Pa who 

is drawn to his sugar plantation like a fly to 

light. There are the four ominous butterflies: 

Zus, the lad, Moeder and the young nanny 

Roos. There is the garden that opens up like 

a strange flower with thick, mysterious petals. 

Using material and setting from her own family 

history with ties to Indonesia, Hanna 

Nordenhök writes Det vita huset i Simpang, a 

hypnotic but also violent tale about intimacy 

and power relations and about the legacy of 

a dark colonial past. The story of Swedish colonialism 

and women’s roles in the East Indies 

project here intertwine with questions 

about the power of storytelling and writing, 

and also with the consequences when children 

are forced to interpret the adult world 

through a key hole. 

Press voices: 

“In her new book she gives free reign to the 

language of poetry. It has a both suggestively 

attractive and a repelling beauty – Nordenhök 

has a rare sense of language.” 

Östgöta Correspondenten 

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Hanna Nordenhök 

Hanna Nordenhök was born in 1977 and 

lives in Stockholm where she works as a 

literary critique at Aftonbladet. 

After two very well-received poetry collections, 

Hiatus (2007) and Bländare 

(2009), she debuted as a novelist with Promenaderna 

i Dalby Hage (2001). 

“A very poetically written book and it is the 

nicely carved relationships that she describes 

that makes this book almost hypnotic when 

you read it. /…/ Very well worth reading!” 

Gomorron Sverige, Swedish Television 

“it is the sensual treasures in Hanna 

Nordenhök’s prose that makes Det vita huset 

i Simpang such a strong novel.” Norra Skåne 

“The perfection of the style contrasts strikingly 

with the rotting that the novel portrays 

with almost tactile details. Det vita huset 

i Simpang is a perfect mausoleum from which 

the fumes and the sighs from a culture that 

causes disease still ooze out. One of the most 

well-formulated Swedish novels I have read in 

a long time.” Expressen 

“I think of Marguerite Duras but also the dark 

classic The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau. 

/.../ There is not a single sentence in this 

novel that is not wonderful!” Dagens Nyheter 

“Nordenhök writes like the poet she is, with 

incredible precision and incredible beauty 

/.../ This is an evil tale of reality.” 

Sydsvenska Dagbladet 

“Det vita huset i Simpang is, despite its cozy introduction, 

a scary novel. /…/ Irrevocably, it 

draws the reader into its sticky family drama, 

without any protecting distancing. But the 

reader should be grateful for this, because Det 

vita huset i Simpang is an excellent place to 

spend time.” Helsingborgs Dagblad 

“the butterfly metaphor is applicable to 

Nordenhök’s prose. Like a butterfly, it is incredibly 

beautiful, changing and very expressive. 

In constant movement.” Aftonbladet 

“Hanna Nordenhök moves, glides, steps almost 

unnoticeably between two epochs in her 

new novel, Det vita huset i Simpang. /…/ The 

style is clear, specific, almost cinematic, but 

also very sensual.”Nya Wermlands-Tidningen 






Fiction 

Kattbarnen 

The Cat Children 

by Emma Nordlander 



The Cat Children 

On the surface it might look as if they are just 

like any other family. But the truth is, their entire 

world has fallen apart. 

Emma Nordander’s debut is set in southern 

Sweden, with the three siblings, Amos, Dalia 

and little Ella, as the main characters. Amos 

visits his younger sister Dalia in the hospital. 

Her room is the same one in which their mother 

died from cancer a year earlier. Dalia has 

tried to kill herself. 

When they return home everything that 

happened since their mother died is revealed. 

Overwhelmed by grief their father left 

the children to fend for themselves. The only 

thing he left behind is a note saying that he 

has gone to Denmark. 

The children must now survive on their own. 

Amos works at the factory and Dalia takes 

care of eighteen-month-old Ella. They make 

up their own family, with all that this entails. 

But it comes at a great price. Dalia has to give 

up going to school and Amos has to work hard 

to make the money last. 

The question is, how long will it take before 

people around them start noticing what’s going 

on, and wether their father will ever return? 

If he does, could they or should they 

forgive him? And can they ever be a regular 

family again – a family that can stay together 

and grieve at the same time. 

Press voices: 

“Her language is sparse, simple, almost a little 

harsh and contributes to the confined sense 

of mystery. This is a novel that is kept strictly 

in check. It is a brave debut that demands 

a great deal of its reader. It will be exciting to 

see what Emma Nordlander accomplishes in 

the future.” Hallandsposten 

“This is a very fine little story that Emma 

Nordlander debuts with. I will be happy to 

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Emma Nordlander 

Emma Nordlander was born in 1986 in 

Gnosjö, and now lives in Gothenburg 

where she studies archeology. 

Kattbarnen is her debut novel. 

read more of her writing.” Göteborgs Posten 

“Kattbarnen is a promising debut – though I 

can’t quite determine what it is that it promises. 

It is like a beautiful, mysterious song 

lyric, where the language itself is the music.” 

Aftonbladet 

“But Nordlander makes the story really burn, 

perhaps primarily because of the factory and 

the impending unemployment smoldering 

in the periphery. Hell does not need to be 

spoken out loud in order to be sensed. /…/ 

It is a bright debut, void of psychologizing 

harangues. Nordlander trusts that the reader 

can and wants to understand things on her 

own. And the style becomes an almost existential 

platform that announces that we 

are our actions, glances, words. We do things 

without knowing why and remain estranged 

from our own actions, and therefore, from 

ourselves.” Sydsvenskan 

“her novel is a humble portrayal of youth 

with no safety net, left to their own bodies 

and thoughts.” Svenska Dagbladet 

“Kattbarnen is a well-crafted depiction of the 

siblings’ repressed desperation and paralyzed 

daily life.” Dagens Nyheter 

“In sentences as short as gasps, Emma Nordlander 

sketches out her story about three siblings’ 

fight to stay together as a family when 

all rules of life have capsized. Social realism 

galore by this solid debutante.” Fokus 

”Nordlander’s use of language is naked and 

exciting, and it continuously engages your 

thoughts. She tends to shake things up more 

in the details than in the whole, but still shapes 

Kattbarnen into an exhilarating, tense 

story.” Smålandsposten 






Fiction 

Systrar & bröder 

Sisters & Brothers 

by Maria Sveland 




KiWi, Germany • Modtryk, Denmark 

Czarna Owca, Poland 

With an impertinent eye for details, Maria Sveland 

continues to examine the dysfuntional nuclear 

family falling apart. 

Sisters & Brothers 

Yes, that’s how it was. Göran was their only 

father. The one they happened to get. They would 

just have to deal with that as best they could. 

Surviving childhood isn’t easy. Using different 

strategies, neuroses and memories, the 

three siblings in Maria Sveland’s new novel 

struggle to get by. To forgive, reconcile and 

repress. Their childhood; father Göran’s 

monster-snoring in the row house at night, 

little brother Per’s night terrors, Hedda’s 

sensitivity to guardian angels and zombie demons, 

Nora’s big-sister need to be good, their 

mother Anita’s death. And Nora’s words: 

Everything will be alright. Words that both 

bother and reassure Hedda. 

Nora’s grandiose attitude toward love and 

family life keeps getting in the way of real 

happiness. She wishes she could be happier 

with Henrik and the children. Instead she 

gets annoyed with his preoccupation with 

law and tacos. Hedda attends the University 

College of Arts, Crafts and Design where she 

exclusively sculpts handguns, using different 

materials and different colors. But mostly 

she just wants to sleep. Little brother Per has 

problems with intimacy but is mostly concerned 

about his receding hairline which he 

films with his cell phone every night. During 

the day he sells massage, marijuana and ambient 

music for fifteen hundred kronor an 

hour. His clients are middle-aged women. 

Their dead mother Anita hovers over them 

like a lost soul and their father Göran disappears 

under mysterious circumstances 

during a trip to Transylvania. 

Nora, Hedda and Per are grownups who keep 

licking their childhood wounds. In her new 

novel Systrar & bröder Maria Sveland continues 

examining the nuclear family and its 

neuroses. 

Review date: October 14, 2013 

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Maria Sveland 

Maria Sveland, born 1974, graduated from 

Dramatiska Institutet in 2000 and has since 

made a number of acclaimed programmes 

broadcasted for Swedish public radio 

and television. 

In 2007 Maria Sveland made her debut as 

the author of the novel Bitterfittan/Bitter 

Bitch, which became a huge success and 

was much debated. It gave rise to a new 

concept and has been called a modern 

classic. 

Press voices for Bitterfittan: 

“The book’s strength lies in Maria Sveland’s 

honesty and conviction – her anger, sorrow, 

powerlessness and rebelliousness reach out 

to us in a way that feels absolutely genuine. 

I really do hope that others too, and not just 

me, will support her wish that we can liberate 

both love and motherhood from the destructive 

myths.” Svenska Dagbladet 

“It is tender and it is about love. Motherly 

love, the love between man and woman, between 

mother and daughter, and daughter and 

father. It is a description of growing up in the 

1980s and a story of contemporary life with 

its difficulties in living in accordance with 

what you advocate yourself, and discovering 

(and battling against) your own deeply rooted 

understandings.” Katrineholms Kuriren 

realizing that they have everything to win 

from abandoning their fortified superiority.” 

Borås Tidning 

“if Maria Sveland’s very first book isn’t 

among the paperback bestsellers within six 

months, then I’ll be surprised. Because here 

there is something sweet and something salty 

for everyone.” Nerikes Allehanda 

Press voices for Att springa: 

”That Maria Sveland is a voice to be reckoned 

with is beyond doubt. She has made awardwinning 

radio and TV programs and the dramaturgical 

drive is significant also in this her 

new novel. ” BLT 

“an explosive injection of fighting power 

into your blood stream and a basis for conversation 

that, I hope, can lead to even men 






Fiction 

Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar 

Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves 

by Jonas Gardell 

Senior Editor: Eva Gedin 

1. Kärleken/1. Love, August 2012, 300 pages 

2. Sjukdomen/2. Disease, January 2013, 300 pages 

3. Döden/3. Death, July 2013, 300 pages 

Catalogue and sample translation in English available 


Vigmostad og Bjørke, Norway • WSOY, Finland • Tiderne 

Skifter, Denmark • De Geus, the Netherlands • 

W.A.B., Poland • Pegasus, Turkey • Draumsyn, Iceland 

Ars LAMINA, Macedonia • Sun Color, Taiwan 

Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves 

In 1982 the first reports on a new mysterious 

disease reached Sweden; a cancer-like illness 

with rapid course and imminent death striking 

only homosexual males. 

They are a sort of family: the lovely queen 

Paul; the steady couple Lars-Åke and Seppo; 

Reine, with his haunting past from a rural 

fishing island; fair Bengt who is a film star 

in the making. Every year they celebrate 

Christmas at Paul’s, that is where that Benjamin 

and Rasmus meet and fall in love. They 

will sacrifice everything for love. 

They love each other so dearly; the world and 

the future belong to them. 

This is when that disease comes to town. 

The gay plague. The new Black Death. 

They are all so young. 

One after another they shall die. 

Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar is a compelling, 

passionate and desperate portrayal of 

1980s Stockholm, of people who had started 

to grasp their freedom for the first time in 

history, and about an illness that broke out 

and threatened to kill them all. 

Recognised as one of his country’s best-loved 

authors, Jonas Gardell has written a piece of 

contemporary history, a magnum opus praised 

by readers and critics alike. Norstedts published 

the first part of this great work about 

AIDS, 1. Kärleken, in August 2012 and it immediately 

became a best-seller, topping the 

charts for weeks on end. 

Since publication the series has sold more 

than 210 000 copies. 

The TV series that is based on the trilogy 

also won the Audience Award at Series Mania 

in Paris (in competition with Game of 

Thrones and House of Cards) and is now nocontinued 

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fiction 

Jonas Gardell 

Jonas Gardell was born in 1963 and made 

his highly praised literary debut in 1985. 

He is one of Scandinavia’s most popular 

stand-up comedians and a highly appreciated 

playwright. In his books he portrays 

all kinds of human beings, the humour is 

natural and palpable as is also pain and 

sorrow. There are no taboos, he moves 

with precision between the big and the 

small, between dreams and stern reality. 

Jonas Gardell has written 20 books and 

has been translated into 13 languages. 

minated to the Prix Europa 2013. TV distribution 

rights have been bought by BBC, to 

be aired on BBC4 fall 2013. 

Press voices for 3. Döden: 

“Torka aldriga tårar utan handskar is a great 

achievement. The feat to have made 900 

pages of text about gay men’s suffering and 

death into a popular affair, is a herculean achievement, 

even if your name is Jonas Gardell. 

/.../ Jonas Gardell has ensured that there 

is no excuse for forgetting, or not knowing.” 

Svenska Dagbladet 

“But the true events, and how they and the 

persons are depicted, make Torka aldrig tårar 

utan handskar in to such an essential trilogy. 

No matter what comes hereafter this will 

stand out as Jonas Gardell’s magnum opus.” 

Jönköpings-Posten 

“A great achievement. /…/ This is the most 

important thing he’s written.”Expressen 

“A literary and politically charged works that 

the recipient has to relate to and enter into 

in.” Kristianstadsbladet 

“if possible even more poignant and heartbreaking 

than the previous two books, especially 

in its depiction of Rasmus and 

Benjamin’s relationship. /.../ with this third 

part, Jonas Gardell ties his novels together 

in an elegant way. No thread is left unraveled, 

and although the last part is played in a 

minor key, it ends nonetheless in optimistic 

tone.” Skånska dagbladet 

“Several scenes are outstanding tributes to 

life, as a counterpoint to the horror depicted, 

a demonstration of life if you will. This is a 

fantastic trilogy that has lifted an unnoticed 

part of our Swedish contemporary history. It 

should be read by everyone. ” 

Dagensbok.com 






Fiction 

Liknelseboken 

Metaphor – A Love Story 

by Per Olov Enquist 

March 2013, 249 pages 


Metaphor – A Love Story 


Hanser, Germany • Actes Sud, France 

Gyldendal, Norway • Rosinante, Denmark 

Iperborea, Italy • Sprotin, Faeroe Islands 

Host, Czech Republic •Ambo/Anthos, the Netherlands 


MacLehose Press, world English • Destino, Spain • 

Europa, Hungary 

He is thinking that the eulogy he had held to 

his Mother in the Congregation House perhaps 

should be revised. By the river’s shore a flock of 

dying friends are standing, they are pleading to 

him to explain how everything is connected, for 

instance this matter with Love. 

The Boy – not the one who had died, but the 

one with the same name who had lived and 

had become the Author. And the woman in 

the Larsson House; she, who had lain down 

with him on the knot-free pine floor. Should 

he write the truth? 

And Father’s note book with the ripped-out 

pages, that had been burnt and was forever 

gone. And then suddenly is resurfacing after 

all these years, like a crack in history opening 

up before him. 

Should all this really be told in the eulogy? 

And be transformed into the love story he 

never thought he would be able to write? 

Per Olov Enquist’s new novel Liknelseboken 

continues, in some ways, the story in 

his praised memoir novel Ett annat liv. It is 

about the Mother and the Father, the Books 

and whether it is really possible in the end to 

sum up all that really mattered. From all this 

a love story emerges, which takes its beginning 

in a meeting between the 15-year-old 

boy and an older woman on a knot-free pine 

floor in the Larsson House. 

More than 20 000 copies sold the first week! 

Press voices: 

“To my surprise, I start bawling like a baby 

– Liknelseboken is actually so beautiful that 

it makes you cry.” Sveriges Radio’s Kulturnytt 

“Enquist stretches his language. With short 

phrases. Sparse words. Rare. His own private 

words. Enough with the quibbling. Italics. 

Exclamation points! Sometimes several!!! 

Highlighted text. Implied meaning. [Enquist] 

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Per Olov Enquist 

Per Olov Enquist was born in 1934 in 

northen Sweden. He is one of the most 

celebrated authors in Scandinavia, and 

his novels have been translated into more 

than 40 languages. Enquist has also written 

screenplays for TV and film and several 

plays, and today he is one of the most 

performed Scandinavian playwrights. 

Enquist is one of only two writers ever having 

received the prestigious August Prize 

for fiction twice; in 1999 with the novel 

Livläkarens besök/The Royal Physician’s 

Visit, and in 2008 with his memoir novel 

Ett annat liv/Another Kind of Life. 

with his old notebook approaches the pain 

threshold of reading. Then, imperceptibly, 

we cross the line, and on the other side language 

and words and metaphors take shape 

once again. It is simply dazzlingly beautiful. 

Rarely have his mother’s words, ‘[Per Olov], it 

wouldn’t surprise me if you became a prophet 

some day!’ had the same significance as 

they do here./…/ Liknelseboken is filled with a 

rare power that makes the old shiny new, the 

commonplace profound and [Enquist’s] vivid 

recollections great literature.” 

Helsingborgs Dagblad 

“A close-to-earth, fairytale-like love /…/ It 

turns into some of Enquist’s finest work, a 

letter from a living person to a dead one. It 

has now arrived.” Svenska Dagbladet 

“And the result is very much a romance novel, 

full of life even when at its most ascetic. 

And it also carries a kind of literature’s own 

truth – an insight via words that is in itself 

far beyond words. And which, nonetheless, 

despite the fact that the meaning neither 

lends itself to being summarized or defined, 

more and more clearly reverberates through 

the novel like a wordless insight, an insight 

beyond all metaphors, which can be exclusively 

understood as – a feeling. It is very beautiful.” 

Dagens Nyheter 

“to the Enquist reader this is yet another 

wonderful piece of the puzzle – maybe even 

the most important one /…/ To us readers 

Liknelseboken is very obviously some kind of 

book of corrections that showcases the role 

of women, love and sexuality in his life. Now, 

toward the end, Enquist twists and turns his 

authorship – ‘the heap o’ books’ – and wonders 

if he managed his gift well and depicted 

the meaning and purpose of love the right 

way. /…/ The heap o’ books is not yet something 

finished but something that is very 

much alive. PO Enquist knows this better 

than most.” Expressen 






Fiction 

En storm kom från paradiset 

A Storm Blew in From Paradise 

by Johannes Anyuru 



Sample translation in English available 


Btb, Germany • Actes Sud, France • Press, Norway 

Gyldendal, Denmark • Schildts & Söderströms, Finland 

De Geus, the Netherlands 

World Editions, world English 

35 000 copies sold! 

Nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award! 

A Storm Blew in From Paradise 

“He doesn’t remember what has happened to 

him, what he’s doing on this train. The full moon 

hangs low above the horizon, a gray disc. He 

can see the craters, the sandy seas. He doesn’t 

remember who he is. The moon, it reminds him 

of something. Of clouds. Of the wind. He doesn’t 

remember. He doesn’t remember the story.” 

A young man, P, is sitting in a small cage 

in a Tanzanian jail. His greatest dream is to 

fly. Up until quite recently everything had 

looked promising. He had come to Greece to 

be trained at the Hellenic Air Force Academy 

in Dhekelia, just outside Athens, chosen 

to be a pilot and an officer in the Ugandan 

Air Force. Soon he would be soaring through 

the skies in an unpainted, polished aluminium 

MIG-21. 

But then, on January 26, 1971, the news of a 

coup in his homeland reaches him. Idi Amin 

has taken power. Shortly thereafter all Ugandan 

aviation cadets are ordered home by 

Amin’s state machine. It is at that moment 

that P makes his life’s most crucial choice: 

to defect and stay in Greece. After that, 

nothing turns out like he imagined. He’s not 

allowed to fly in Europe, and in despair he 

accepts a job in Zambia as a crop dusting 

pilot. But as he lands he is taken into custody 

and transported to a Tanzanian jail. 

P is afraid; afraid that he will be sent back to 

Uganda and be prosecuted for treason; afraid 

that he will die here without anybody knowing; 

afraid that they have already killed his 

family back home. 

Over a period of many years, we follow P’s 

struggles – as a refugee, as a military camp 

prisoner, as a man on the run. He never stops 

dreaming of a life as a pilot, but he’ll never 

get to fly again. Johannes Anyuru has written 

a thrilling novel about his own father’s 

fate, a read which stays with you for a long 

time. This is a novel about survival, and a 

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fiction 

Johannes Anyuru 

Johannes Anyuru, born in 1979, made his 

debut in 2003 with the critically acclaimed 

collection of poems Det är bara gudarna 

som är nya/Only The Gods Are New. 

En storm kom från paradiset is Anyuru’s 

second novel and fifth book to date, and 

it was unanimously praised by the press. 

It has been awarded (among other prizes) 

with the Svenska Dagbladet Literature 

Prize and the Aftonbladet Literature 

Prize, as well as nominated for the August 

Prize 2012, the Nordic Council’s Literary 

Award 2012, and Swedish Radio’s Novel 

Prize 2013. 

haunting account of one man’s unfulfilled 

dream to fly. 

Press voices: 

“Johannes Anyuru, who since his debut in 

2003 is one of the most well-known poets 

and prose writers of his generation, has now 

taken the fate of a refugee – his father – and 

created a literary masterpiece. Those are 

grand words, but En storm kom från paradiset 

is also a grand novel.” Sydsvenskan 

“A personal and universal novel about fatherlessness 

and identity, about the power of 

violence and about how we are all prisoners 

of time.” Aftonbladet 

“But you feel the breeze from the storm out 

of paradise, you feel the large movements, 

you feel the hypnotic effect of a prose that 

can make you visualize the Angel of History 

zooming in on a building in Växjö. 

It is fantastic.” Expressen 

“it is so beautiful. I forget that I am reading 

a novel, I get stuck in tiny details, everyday 

things, the description of the sun rising 

over Hisingen or setting in the ocean somewhere 

in Africa. /.../ Anyuru’s language 

hurls itself, like the main character of this 

book, straight into the sun, burns and scorches. 

It is impressive that an action as spectacular 

and painful as this one can be tamed 

by a language, by the beauty of the words.” 


“He has found a fresh language, a running 

gait that feels light and quick, and when 

there are pauses, they are loaded and shimmering.” 

Dagens Nyheter 

“Basically, this is a song of sorrow, performed 

in bitter sweet prose, coming from a conscience 

rooted in both strength and indecisiveness. 

A dark story which breathes hope. 

A work of therapy of great artistic value.” 

Hallands Nyheter 






Fiction 

Jag tjänar inte 

I Will Not Serve 

by Jenny Åkervall 

March 2013, 384 pages 


Sample translation in English available 

A thrilling novel about relationships, ambition 

and high-stakes power play! 

I Will Not Serve 

“When she went to pick up the newspaper the 

next morning, she found the photo slipped in 

through the chink beneath the door. She almost 

missed the picture which flew out and landed on 

the thin blanket of snow that had settled on the 

landing during the night. 

When she leaned over it she immediately 

saw that it was a photo of herself. She was standing 

with a glass of wine in her hand and gazed 

through the grand panorama window in the 

living room at Paul Zander’s place. 

At first she just stared, paralysed, at the photo, 

then she quickly put it in the pocket of her dressing 

gown and plod through snow down to the 

letter box while her brain went into overdrive.” 

Psychiatrist Anna Sager is worn out with 

work and struggles with everyday life. At 

home, her husband Jakob is increasingly 

frustrated with having to take care of the 

household and the kids in her absence. And 

at work, she fails to be as committed to her 

patients as she usually is, with severe consequences. 

When Anna is contacted by the security police, 

offering her to do a profile on a young 

girl who is stalking a minister of the government, 

it seems like a new beginning for her 

professional life. But Anna lets her emotions 

guide her and soon she is dragged into a 

political power play, where she herself risks 

becoming a victim. 

At the Government Offices Anna gets to 

know Emre Oktan, an up-and-coming press 

secretary who is also fighting battles between 

his personal and professional life. On the one 

hand he has the headstrong Prime Minister 

and the receding poll ratings to deal with; on 

the other hand he has his background and 

high personal values, which sometimes clash 

with his political mission. 

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fiction 

Jenny Åkervall 

Jenny Åkervall, born in 1972, has worked 

as a speech writer for, among others, former 

Prime Minister Göran Persson. She 

has also worked as editor-in-chief at the 

union paper Akademikern and the socialdemocratic 

Frihet, as well as a journalist 

for leading daily papers as Expressen, Göteborgs-Posten 

and Borås Tidning. Currently, 

she works within the Riksdag (the Swedish 

parliament). 

Jenny Åkervall was raised in Borås but 

has also lived and studied in London. 

Today she lives with her husband and 

three children outside Stockholm. 

Jag tjänar inte is an exciting contemporary 

novel about the harsh world of politics and 

the crisis of modern psychiatry. But it is also a 

story of a woman’s midlife crisis, where all the 

choices she has made are suddenly challenged. 

Debutant Jenny Åkervall writes cunningly 

and with a nimble pen about both psychiatry 

and political power. Her past as a journalist 

and a political speech writer is evident 

in the narrative’s settings, as well as in the 

depiction of the characters. 

Press voices: 

“Jag tjänar inte is a mix of suspense, contemporary 

romance and a female depiction of a 

psychiatrist who ends up in a life crisis. It is 

driven and entertainingly written, while it’s 

clear that the author wants something – she 

portrays a mental health care on the verge of 

disintegration, and politics where powerful 

men hold each others’ back.” Aftonbladet 

“Jag tjänar inte has a suspense that drives the 

plot forward, and a focus of great female portraits, 

alongside the pictures from politics 

and the media scene.” 

Arbetarbladet 

“I have never read such a confident, captivating 

and complete Swedish debut as Jenny 

Åkervall’s Jag tjänar inte. She has a background 

as a speech writer for [social democratic 

party leaders] Göran Persson and 

Mona Sahlin, which has given her insight 

into the scenery in the Cabinet Office. This 

makes the novel feel realistic and credible in 

everything from intrigue, power struggles 

and relationships with industry big shots to 

the vulnerability of being a public figure. /.../ 

The two tracks brush against each other in a 

sensitive matter, and the novel is a page-turner 

in the thriller-like depiction of the conditions 

of working life in a twisted society 

where humanity is tested. Add to it a clean 

finish, well composed! ” Norran 






Fiction 

Välkommen ut på andra sidan 

Welcome to the Other Side 

by AnnaMaria Jansson 

January 2013, 357 pages 


A page-turning chick lit about three young women and 

the crucial events that will change their lives. 

Welcome to the Other Side 

“Malin threw an extra cardigan in the bag and 

put on the leather jacket and the black boots. If 

she were to go out partying tonight, she would 

have to change shoes. Boots would be far too 

boring, but she had a black pair of ‘emergency 

pumps’ in the locker at work, those would make 

do. 

She fixed her hair quickly one last time in 

front of the hall mirror, and then she took her 

keys and put the iPhone and lipgloss in the bag. 

April 14, what a bloody shit date.” 

This story takes place in two big cities, 

Stockholm and Gothenburg. Malin, Lovisa 

and Sandra are all soon in their thirties, and 

they are all going through their own personal 

little hells. 

Malin is single and works at a restaurant. It 

is not always easy, but the co-workers are 

great. One night, after an enjoyable evening 

out with one of her colleagues, something 

happens to her that only ever happens to 

others, when someone she thought was a 

friend shows his real face. 

Lovisa is living a dream life. She has the perfect 

job, the most beautiful apartment and 

the greatest boyfriend in the world, Viktor. 

They are “Viktor-and-Lovisa”, and it is as it 

should be. But then one day everything falls 

to pieces, a friend has seen Viktor holding 

another girl, and their perfect happiness is 

no more. 

Sandra feels stuck, in more than one way, 

in life and in her stagnant relationship with 

Fredrik. Then someone notices the work she 

does at the office and she is offered a promotion, 

and Sandra realises that there might be 

more for her to grasp out there, if only she 

dares to make the move. 

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fiction 

AnnaMaria Jansson 

AnnaMaria Jansson, born 1979, is a journalist 

living in Stockholm. Since 2006 she 

has worked as a sports reporter for numerous 

news papers and recently as a reporter 

and commentator as well as host on 

TV, experting on biathlon. 

Välkommen ut på andra sidan is Anna- 

Maria Jansson’s debut as a novellist. 

Välkommen ut på andra sidan is a novel about 

three women getting through crises, which 

are both personal and common. It is a story 

with dark undertones and a strong message 

of female empowerment, and even happiness. 

It is a novel perfect for a young female 

readership, about the good and the bad in 

life, a book to take you by the hand and wish 

you welcome to the other side. 

Press voices: 

“This is so easy to read that you just glide 

through the text. At the same time Anna- 

Maria Jansson has some things to say about 

the age in which she is living and she nails 

the dialog and the emotions bang-on.” 

Aftonbladet Söndag 

“Credible and close to reality, Jansson depicts 

the inner struggle that rape victims are 

often said to experience: Was it something 

to report? Did I myself have blame in what 

happened? /.../ It is a story right between 

Sex in the City and Lipstick Jungle, which despite 

some clichés will appeal to many for 

sure.” Upsala Nya Tidning 

“The novel is straightforward and fast-paced, 

and sometimes shows a surprisingly great 

psychological credibility” Svenska Dagbladet 

“AnnaMaria Jansson makes an honest 

attempt to deepen and darken the conventional 

chick lit story, and at times it is captivating.” 


“the dialog is realistic, right in the moment, 

well captured. And I like that AnnaMaria 

Jansson dares to include such a hard topic as 

rape and write about the psychological consequences 

of being raped.” Borås Tidning 






Fiction 

Plats 

Stay! 

by Pija Lindenbaum 

Spring 2013, 135 pages 


One of Sweden’s best-selling and prize-awarded 

children’s fiction authors makes her novel debut! 

Stay! 

“My place is over there, to the right. Now, I’m 

crossing the room. At first the sharp sound 

against the stone floor. The steps fall silent on 

the green rug. Something is chafing in the left 

shoe.” 

She is an ordinary woman with an office job 

and a husband and a grown-up child. But something 

is off. Suddenly she finds herself in 

a state where everything feels foreign to her. 

Everyday meetings and situations become 

weird and intrusive. So one day she leaves her 

home and her work and barricades herself in 

a borrowed flat where she cuts off the outside 

world. Throws away her mobile phone 

and her computer. And gets a dog. 

Now it’s just her and the dog. 

The much-loved children’s book creator Pija 

Lindenbaum has finally made her debut as a 

novelist with a suggestive short novel about 

a middle-aged woman on the verge of a nervous 

breakdown. Lindenbaum’s precise prose 

in short scenes screws itself in and down 

into a story with both comical and gripping 

blackness. 

Pija Lindenbaum graduated from the Stockholm 

College of Arts, Crafts and Design in 

1979 and has since then worked as an artist, 

designer and author. She has created some 

of the most-loved Swedish picture books of 

the recent years, among them: Else-Marie och 

småpapporna/Else-Marie and the Seven Little 

Daddies; and Gittan och gråvargarna/Bridget 

and the Grey Wolves. Lindenbaum’s books 

are appreciated abroad as well. A number of 

them have been translated into English, Japanese, 

German, French and Dutch, among 

other languages. 

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fiction 

Pija Lindenbaum 

Pija Lindenbaum was born and raised in 

Sundsvall, in the north of Sweden. She is 

one of Sweden’s most renown children’s 

fiction creators, and has been translated 

to several languages. During the years, 

Lindenbaum has been awarded many prestigious 

prizes, such as Illustrator of the 

Year at the Bologna Book Fair in 1993; the 

August Prize for Best Children’s Book in 

2000 (also short listed in 1993 and 1996); 

the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2008; and the 

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2012. 

Plats is Lindenbaum’s very first novel for 

adults. 

Press voices: 

“With Plats, Pija Lindenbaum in a way writes 

herself into the contemporary literary wave 

of books that portray women who get fed 

up of the claustrophobic family life /…/ But 

Lindenbaum would not be Lindenbaum if she 

did not take the twisted, surreal grip that is 

so characteristic of her children’s books with 

her into the novel. /.../ Pija Lindenbaums 

debut novel is psychologically uncomfortable, 

sometimes surreal and often spot-on 

in dialogue and descriptions of emotional 

states.” Expressen 

“Pija Lindenbaum has a fine psychological 

insight, she describes a journey along the 

mined land that is both recognizable and 

repulsive as it tells of the forbidden and unacceptable 

within us. Plats is a debut that 

leaves you wanting more.” Dala-Demokraten 

“Lindenbaums poetic language evokes an 

oppressive atmosphere that becomes increasingly 

sinister, the longer the story progresses. 

I get more and more nervous about what 

will happen when she finally lets go and let 

the dark gush out for real. / ... / Lindenbaum 

portrays all of this in such a strong and intense 

manner, that I feel almost breathless 

after reading.” Litteraturmagazinet 

“The dystopia Plats is about a nervous breakdown 

and an emotional breakdown in a desperate 

loneliness. Plats is just compact compressed 

text, no pictures. The interesting 

angles are found in the language. An absolutely 

fantastic language!” 

Västerbottens-Kuriren 






Fiction 

Sörja för de sina 

Caring for One’s Own 

by Kristina Sandberg 



Sample translation in English of 

Att föda ett barn/Giving Birth is available 


Pantagruel, Norway 

More than 10 000 copies sold! 

Caring for One’s Own 

Everything ought to be better now. Her husband 

Tomas has managed to remain sober after being 

treated with hypnoses by Dr Bjerre. And Maj is 

doing everything she can for the family to have a 

nice home and to be a perfect housewife. But she 

feels like she will never live up to the high expectations 

– real and imagined – of her husband 

and his mother Thea. 

Maj is a young stay-at-home mother and 

wife in the welfare state of the 40’s and 50’s 

when the housewife was still a desirable ideal 

and seen as an important profession. She 

tries hard to be loving towards her children, 

and ensure that the home will be secure, harmonious 

and flawless. But when the fatigue, 

fear and anxiety overpowers her, her doubts 

and her obsessiveness set in – nothing she or 

her family does seem good enough. Tomas is 

struggling to refrain from alcohol, and manage 

the company inherited by his family, 

but the suspicion that perhaps he started 

drinking again hangs heavily over Maj and 

the family. Her personal losses Maj doesn’t 

even want to think about. 

This is the second part in Kristina Sandberg’s 

novel trilogy, which began with Att föda ett 

barn, about a housewife’s life in Örnsköldsvik 

in northern Sweden. Maj’s story is one 

about motherhood, womanhood and living 

with alcoholism, her personal struggles in a 

changing world. It is an intimate portrayal 

of an unhappy woman which lingers in the 

reader’s mind. 

Press voices for Sörja för de sina: 

“What impresses the most is the ability to 

build excitement around a life that on the 

surface appears to be fairly uneventful. Some 

readers of this review might sigh ‘but that 

story, we have surely read before’ or mutter 

something about ‘boring Swedish realism’. 

Dismiss all such thoughts immediately! Believe 

me when I say that Sörja för de sina, as 

well as Att föda ett barn (even if you don’t 

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fiction 

Kristina Sandberg 

Kristina Sandberg, born in 1971, was raised 

in Sundsvall, but is now living in Stockholm. 

She made her debut in 1997 with 

the novel I vattnet flyter man/In The Water 

One Floats. 

Sörja för de sina is her fifth novel, and the 

second in a trilogy that began with the critically 

acclaimed Att föda ett barn (2010). 

Att föda ett barn has sold more than 14 000 

copies to date. 

need to have read the predecessor to read 

this) is a real page-turner, that kind of novel 

that occupies the reader, with characters 

who creep close and stubbornly linger in the 

mind after you have (reluctantly) closed the 

book.” Svenska Dagbladet 

“Deafeningly dramatic about the housewife 

/.../ In the same way that Kristina Sandberg 

makes the novel’s underlying anxiety reflect 

Maj’s inner trembling, the unravelling is 

congenial – after have moved in Maj’s psyche 

for most of the nearly five hundred pages, it’s 

with Tomas’ narrative perspective that the 

book is closed. Maj is left alone beyond our 

point of view. Peripheral, like the housewife, 

noticeable only when the work is not done 

properly.” Västerbottens-Kuriren 

“Kristina Sandberg has really managed to 

write a dense continuation to the story of 

May” Dagens Nyheter 

“Sandberg is an evocative storyteller whose 

sentences almost crawl under the skin of the 

reader. Her stories are needed.” 

Upsala Nya Tidning 

Press voices for Att föda ett barn: 

“I could never imagine that one day I would 

sit deep in a 500-page novel about household 

chores and infant care. That Kristina Sandberg 

manages to pull that somewhat hypnotic 

trick off /.../ is essentially down to the 

narrative technique. I await, with a suspense 

I could never have foreseen, the story’s continuation.” 

Expressen 

“The condensed nature of the text forms an 

immediate flow which the reader is sucked 

into without resistance. It is complex but 

not complicated, and it confirms Kristina 

Sandberg’s position as one of the most sensitive 

psychological realists in contemporary 

Swedish fiction.” Svenska Dagbladet 






norstedts agency Rights List 2013 

fiction 

Johannes Anyuru 

En storm kom från paradiset/ 

A Storm Blew in From Paradise (2012) 

Mikael Bergstrand Dimma över Darjeeling/Mist over Darjeeling (2013) 

Per Olov Enquist Liknelseboken/Metaphor – A Love Story (2013) 

Jonas Gardell 

AnnaMaria Jansson 

Torkar aldrig tårar utan handskar/ 

Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves (2012 & 2013) 

Välkommen ut på andra sidan/ 

Welcome to the Other Side (2013) 

Pija Lindenbaum Plats/Stay! (2013) 

Kristina Sandberg Sörja för de sina/Caring for One’s Own (2012) 

Maria Sveland Systrar & bröder/Sisters & Brothers (2013) 

Jenny Åkervall Jag tjänar inte/I Will Not Serve (2013) 

Carl-Henning Wijkmark Vi ses igen i nästa dröm/We’ll Meet Again (2013) 

crime fiction 

Thomas Bodström 

Rymmaren/The Escapee (2008); Idealisten/ 

The Idealist (2009); Lobbyisten/The Lobbyist (2010); 

Populisten/The Populist (2013) 

Michael Hjorth & Det fördolda/Dark Secrets (2010) 

Hans Rosenfeldt, Lärjungen/The Disciple (2011) 

The Sebastian Bergman Fjällgraven/The Mountain Grave (2012) 

Series: Den stumma flickan/The Mute Girl (2014) 

Hans Koppel, Kommer aldrig mer igen/Never Coming Back (2011) 

The Collin Series: Kom ska vi tycka om varandra/You’re Mine Now (2012) 

Om döda ont/What Comes Around (2013) 

Robert Kviby, De korrupta/The Corrupt (2012) 

The Lander Series: Listan/The List (2013) 

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norstedts agency Rights List 2013 

Maria Lang, 

Mördaren ljuger inte ensam/ 

Relaunch of her classical The Murderer Doesn’t Lie Alone (1949; 2013) 

whodunnit novels: Farligt att förtära/Harmful if Eaten (1950; 2013) 

Inte flera mord!/No More Murders! (1951; 2013) et al 

Michael Mortimer Jungfrustenen/The Maidenstone (2013) 

Fossildrottningen/The Escape from Paradise (2014) et al 

Denise Rudberg, Ett litet snedsprång/Stepping Over the Line (2010) 

Elegant Crime Series: Två gånger är en vana/Twice is a Habit (2011) 

Bara tre kan leka så/Only Three Can Play That Game (2013) 

General non-fiction 

Henrik Arnstad 

Jesper Bengtsson 

Ingrid Carlberg 

Älskade fascism/Fascism, Mon Amour – The Ideology and 

History of the Black-and-Brown Movements (2013) 

Aung San Suu Kyi – En kamp för frihet/ 

Aung San Suu Kyi – A Biography (2011; updated 2013) 

Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig/ 

Raoul Wallenberg – A Biography (2012) 

Claes Ericson Oligarkerna/The Oligarchs – 

Money and Power in Capitalist Russia (2011; updated 2012) 

Sven-Göran Eriksson & The Official Sven-Göran Eriksson Biography: 

Stefan Lövgren Svennis – Min historia/Sven – My Story (2013) 

Daniel Goldberg & Minecraft/Minecraft (2012) 

Linus Larsson 

Tore Jansson 

Germanerna/Tale of the Teutons – Germanic and German 

in Antiquity and Afterwards (2013) 

Jonathan Lindström Medvetandets gåta/The Curiosity of the Mind (2013) 

Sven Lindström Roxette/Roxette – The Incredible Journey (2013) 

Bea Uusma 

Expeditionen – Min kärlekshistoria/ 

The Expedition – A Love Story (2013) 





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