List of Swedish women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Sweden or whose writings are closely associated with the country.

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C

  • Gunnel Carlson (born 1956), gardening journalist, author, television presenter
  • Siv Cedering (1939–2007), children's writer, poet, writes in both English and Swedish
  • Sigrid Combüchen (born 1942), novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, author of Byron (1988)

D

  • Tora Dahl (1886–1982), novelist, teacher, gained fame with her autobiographic Fosterbarn (Foster Child) in 1954

E

  • Inger Edelfeldt (born 1956), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, illustrator
  • Kerstin Ekman (born 1933), novelist, detective story writer, several English translations
  • Margareta Ekström (born 1930), poet, novelist, children's writer, critic
  • Elaine Eksvärd (born 1981), non-fiction writer specializing in rhetoric
  • Helena Eriksson (born 1962), expressionist poet, author of Strata
  • Maria Ernestam (born 1959), journalist, widely translated novelist

F

  • Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807–1892), novelist
  • Tua Forsström (born 1947), highly acclaimed Swedish-language poet, widely translated, author of Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar (After Spending a Night among Horses)
  • Marianne Fredriksson (1927–2007), journalist, novelist, most works translated into English
  • Inger Frimansson (born 1944), crime fiction writer, children's writer, journalist
  • Katarina Frostenson (born 1953), one of Sweden's foremost poets since the 1980s

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I

  • Ulla Isaksson (1916–2000), novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, caused controversy among feminists with Paradistorg (Paradise Place, 1973)

J

  • Ann Jäderlund (born 1955), poet, playwright, children's writer
  • Ann Henning Jocelyn, (born 1948), writer, playwright and translator
  • Klara Johanson (1875–1948), literary critic, essayist, translator
  • Majken Johansson (1930–1993), now regarded as one of Sweden's greatest mid-20th century poets
  • Mari Jungstedt (born 1962), popular crime fiction writer, journalist, translated 15 languages including English[2]

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N

O

P

  • Agneta Pleijel (born 1940), novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, critic, author of the philosophical novel Fungi

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U

  • Bea Uusma (born 1966), children's writer, non-fiction writer, illustrator, medical doctor

V

  • Gunnel Vallquist (1918–2016), essayist, non-fiction writer, translator, religious commentary

W

gollark: Pascal's Wager basically goes "if no god, belief doesn't have costs anyway (wrong, since it takes time and may make your thinking more irrational); if god, non-belief means infinite badness (hell), belief means infinite goodness (heaven), so rationally you should believe".
gollark: There *may* be a god of some kind who rewards you for believing in them and their afterlife and such, but there is an infinity of possible gods including ones like "allocates you to heaven or hell entirely at random", "entirely indistinguishable from no god", "sends you to hell if you believe in the *other* god", "incomprehensible eldritch abomination" or "literal bees".
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gollark: Whether there *is*... some supernatural thing after death, such as an afterlife... is pretty much independent of whether you believe it or not, and while the exact form of that *may* depend on your beliefs about it, that makes a LOT of presumptions about god or who/what created the system which are not supported.

See also

References

  1. Anneli Jordahl (2006). "Swedish Literature in the 20th Century". Swedish Institute. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  2. "Modern Swedish Literature". Sverige/Sweden. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

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