New Swedish Books, autumn 2020 1
3 Autumn 2020 Welcome to the Swedish book year of
2020! Never before has New Swedish Books presented this many books, selected by so many knowledgeable literature enthusiasts, as it does this autumn. As the critics pointed out, in one of the group panels recorded in connection with the Gothenburg Book Fair, it has been a fantastic year for Swedish literature! Swedish Literature Exchange invited a group of critics to talk about their favourite books published so far this year. You can read more about these titles in the section ‘Critic’s Choice’. Daring prose, dynamic non-fiction, future classic children’s and young adult literature, novels that shake their readers up – it’s all there! What’s brand new this year is the section called ‘Jury’s Choice’. In this section we have included books represented by Swedish literary agencies. They nominated titles, from which the grants committee, who usually are in charge of assessing applications for translation grants, made a selection. Here too we find an equally dazzling array of books that all deserve to be published in translation. We say thank you to all the literary experts that have taken part in creating this new New Swedish Books – without your enthusiasm and great expertise such an abundant smorgasbord of books could not have happened! Enjoy! Susanne Bergström Larsson, Head of Swedish Literature Exchange Maria Antas, Editor New Swedish Books www.swedishliterature.se