27 Swedish dramatists and playwrights

Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril is a Swedish writer. She was born to a Portuguese mother and a Swedish father, and grew up in Helsingborg on the south coast of Sweden. In the early 90s Alexandra moved to Stockholm to pursue a career in acting before changing her focus to the art of writing.

Bengt Anderberg was a Swedish poet, novelist, editor and playwright.

Sivar Arnér was a Swedish novelist and playwright.

Frigga Carlberg née Anna Fredrika Lundgren, was a Swedish writer, social worker, feminist and advocate for women's suffrage. She was a member of the central comity of the National Association for Women's Suffrage 1903–21 and chair of the Gothenburg branch of the Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage in 1902–21.

Per Olov Enquist, also known as P. O. Enquist, was a Swedish author. He had worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist.

Athena Farrokhzad is an Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, translator and literary critic.

Per Staffan Götestam is a Swedish actor, director, theatre chief, playwright and founder of Junibacken. He is best known as Jonatan in The Brothers Lionheart. He is brother to Birgitta Götestam. Götestam started playing amateur theatre with Örebro Student Theatre. He was educated at Skara skolscen and Statens scenskola, Stockholm. He played a role in the musical Godspell in 1974.

Count Carl Gyllenborg was a Swedish statesman and author.

Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten is a Swedish screenwriter from Stockholm. She wrote the screenplay for the 2012 Guldbagge nominee film Call Girl. She also co-produced the film.

Björn-Erik Höijer was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer and playwright.

Ludvig Oskar Josephson was a Swedish dramatist, actor and theatre manager.

Hilda Augusta Amanda Kerfstedt, née Hallström, was a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. She was a popular and noted writer in late 19th and early 20th century Sweden, and participated in the public debate. She was also engaged in the movement for women's rights, and active in the Fredrika Bremer Association and Married Woman's Property Rights Association. As a feminist, she focused on the debate around sexual equality, and was critical to the contemporary sexual double standards for men and women. As such, she was one of the participants in the Nordic sexual morality debate, the public debate in Swedish papers, books and plays, which took place during the 1880s. She was the editor of the feminist paper Dagny, the publication of the Fredrika Bremer Association, in 1888-1891. She was especially noted within the debate on children's literature.

Josef Kjellgren, was a Swedish writer and playwright.

Britt Inger Liselott Lotass, better known as Lotta Lotass, is a Swedish writer. She holds a PhD of Comparative literature from the University of Gothenburg, and lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy.

Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.

Astrid Tobieson Menasanch, born 29 December 1989, is a Swedish and Spanish playwright, director, producer and journalist. She has family in both Sweden and Spain.

Martina Montelius is a Swedish author, director and playwright. She has written several plays, had three novels published, and also worked as an artistic director.

Lars Göran Ingemar Norén was a Swedish playwright, novelist and poet. His plays are realistic and often revolve around family and personal relations, either among those who are impoverished and rooted at the bottom of society, or those who live in material comfort but emotional insecurity.

Adolf Georg Wiedersheim-Paul was a Swedish writer of novels and plays. He lived most of his adult life in Berlin, Germany, where he was a friend of Swedish writer August Strindberg, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch and Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. Among her plays are Ordning härskar i Berlin from 1979. Among her novels are Vindspejare from 1987 and Drottningens chirurg from 2006. She has been a professor at Dramatiska Institutet since 1992. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991 and the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize in 2018.

Niklas Rådström is one of Sweden's most noted and prolific contemporary poets, novelists and playwrights. He is the son of the author Pär Rådström and theater director Anne Marie Rådström.

Gunnar Sandgren was a Swedish journalist, novelist and playwright.

Jon Henrik Ståhl is a Swedish actor, playwright, author and television host. He studied at Gothenburg Theatre Academy 1995–99. He hosted the children's TV program Bolibompa 1999–2004. He has participated in many Sveriges Television programmes, among them Supersnällasilversara och Stålhenrik and Pomos piano. He has travelled around in Sweden and performed his own play Henrik – en tönt which is about mobbing.

Rudolf Värnlund was a Swedish novelist, short story writer and playwright. Värnlund had his biggest success as a playwright with his play Den heliga familjen (1932).

Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.

Tore Zetterholm (1915–2001) was a Swedish novelist, playwright and journalist. He made his literary debut in 1940 with the novel Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket. He chaired the Writers' Guild of Sweden from 1957 to 1972. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1978.