Swedish
Amanda has finally become a partner but also a manic dictator who wants to control her boyfriend's weight. After "Half of Malmö consists of guys who dumped me" comes Amanda Romare's sequel "Judas". Review date 29/1.
In the novel "The Call", Anneli Jordahl portrays the "wilderness Samaritan" Karolina, who plays a crucial role at a mountain boarding house near the border when the Nazis occupy Norway. 2/2.
Elin Boardy's "The Emperor's Face" is set in the Roman Empire and is about a beautiful young man who becomes the lover of Emperor Hadrian. 4/2.
In her third novel, "Ultravåld", Tone Schunnesson writes about what happens when the family inheritance is to be distributed in a noble Skåne family on a whim - murder suddenly appears as an "interesting solution". 25/5.
Voltage
In Linda Wincent's debut novel "Clown Boy", a single mother takes in a strange boy while her own children are with their father. 14/1.
Cli-fi
Jacob Hirdwall calls his new novel "Map with White Spots" climate fiction; it is set in Iceland. 31/1.
In Ian McEwan's "What We Can Know," large parts of the world are underwater due to climate change when a literary scholar finds a poem from 2014 and begins to study life as it once was. 21/1.
Poetry
In her new collection of poems "Under the Lakes", Ingela Strandberg writes herself into a kind of harmony with reality. 19/1.
Sonja Åkesson would have turned 100, which is celebrated with an edition of her collected poems, with a foreword by Frida Hyvönen. 23/3.
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In the short story collection "The Good and the Evil", Argentinean Samanta Schweblin explores the darkness that hides beneath the everyday. 10/1.
Kamel Daoud's "The Scar" became one of last year's most talked-about novels in France and is about Aube, who is constantly reminded of the Algerian civil war. 31/1.
Danish author Niels Frank wrote "Fan ta dig" after his sister was brutally murdered by her ex-husband. The incident changed him both as a person and as a writer. 11/2.
For "The Sami Problem," Norwegian Kathrine Nedrejord received both the Norwegian Brage Prize and the Swedish Per Olov Enquist Prize for an angry and rebellious novel. 7/3.
Finnish Lida Turpeinen's acclaimed debut novel "The Living" is about a unique manatee that became extinct in 1768 due to human predation. 20/3.
"A Truce That Is Not Peace" - in her memoir, Canadian Miriam Toews realizes that everything she has written, tragedy and comedy, comes from her sister's suicide. April.
"Hunger" by debutant Siri Lidbeck is an autobiographical comic about anorexia. It was started while the artist was ill but she had recovered by the time she finished it. January.
"The Horn of Plenty" is a collection of short stories by Soraya Bay about young women's lives in a capitalist world. January.
"The Day the Sun Went Out" is Nobel Prize nominee Yan Lianke's surreal story about the demise of a Chinese village. 28/1.
Inger Edenfeldt's "Beauty" is described as a relationship novel about aging and beauty. 9/2.
In "The Collapse", Édouard Louis continues his family examination with a book about his racist, homophobic and violent older brother, who died before he turned 40. 12/2.
"A Day in the Life of Christer Pettersson" by Thomas Kanger sees the author return to the murder scene on Sveavägen. February.
Gunnar Ardelius' novel "A Day of Thirst" is about André, his alcoholism and work for the secret Swedish Information Bureau, IB. 31/3.
"The Incompetent" by Tomas Bannerhed sees the author return to his childhood in Småland and to the world he depicted in his debut novel "The Ravens". 20/4.
"Sjónorama" is a new novel by Icelandic author Sjón. April.
"Traveling with Borges" by Eva and Karin Ström: mother and daughter have written a novel together about an evening Spanish class whose odd participants travel to Buenos Aires and are struck by the power of literature. April.
