Anne Carson is a “unique writer,” according to several of her translators: learned, funny and surprising. She is a performance artist on the page, Niklas Haga tells TT.
EntertainmentThis year's book fair wants to rally support for public education, which is under heavy pressure. But the gaming world is also being invited onto the fair floor for the first time. "I love that it's spreading in so many directions," says book fair director Oskar Ekström.
EntertainmentBjörn Wiman is writing a biography of the author Per Olov Enquist.
EntertainmentI think this is a sign of the new, more modern Swedish Academy, where this task has been in place for a few years. This is how Dagens Nyheter's cultural director, Björn Wiman, comments on the announcement that Mats Malm will resign as permanent secretary.
EntertainmentSwedish PEN is cancelling the large manifestation that was planned outside the Turkish embassy in support of the imprisoned journalist Joakim Medin. PEN's chairperson Kerstin Almegård cannot however say why.
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