Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg is one of Sweden’s foremost authors and playwrights. Her big international breakthrough came with the publication of The Faculty of Dreams in 2006. The novel received the Nordic Council Award in 2007, and was nominated to the Man Booker award when published 2019 in the UK and US. Her novels are today translated into 25 languages. In 2016 she became member of the Swedish Academy which she left in April 2018. Her latest novel is The Antarctica of Love that came out in Sweden in 2018 and that soon will be published in the US and UK.

AWARDS

2019 Swedish Radio´s novel Prize
2019 Long listed for the Man Booker International Prize
2018 Moa Martinsson Prize
2017 Prix Femina Short listed
2016 Selma Lagerlöf Literary Prize
2015 The Aniara Prize
2015 De Nios Vinter Prize
2015 The European Prize of Literature
2015 The Berns Prize
2013 The Dobloug Prize
2011 De Nios Vinter Prize
2010 Tidningen Vi:s Literature Prize
2008 Gustaf Fröding award
2007 The Nordic Council Literature Prize
2006 Aftonbladets Literature Prize