About the author

Sara Brita Stridsberg (born 29 August 1972 in Solna, Stockholm County) is a Swedish author and translator. Her first novel, Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer, who in 1939 had become the first Scandinavian woman to swim the English Channel.

In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (Valerie, or The Faculty of Dreams), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

Svenska Dagbladet called Stridsberg "one of our foremost nature poets" and considered her among the best in contemporary Swedish literature while noting that Stridsberg's novels are alway discomforting to read.

In 2016, Stridsberg was elected to the 13th chair on the Swedish Academy previously occupied by Gunnel Vallquist. She was inducted into the Academy on 20 December 2016. On 27 April 2018 she left the Academy, in solidarity with Sara Danius.

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Dyksommer

I dyksommar er blikket barnet Zoes og forståelsen af det at have en forælder med psykisk sygdom er hendes. Det er en gribende fortælling om et barns længsel efter en fraværende far, men i ligeså høj grad en bog om fantasiens og legens kraft.Bogen er gennemillustreret med ekspressive, farverige billeder af Sara Lundberg.Nomineret til Augustprisen 2019.Dagens Nyheter: “Poetisk, smukt og udramatisk om det, som kan være mere skræmmende for voksne”
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Publish date19 Jun 2020
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ISBN print9788772045238
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