WAstrid Ahnfelt (1876–1962) was a Swedish author, translator, foreign correspondent, and journal editor who wrote short stories and novels in both Swedish and Italian. She is remembered principally for fostering cultural exchanges between Sweden and Italy. Her novel I blindo (1908) about Swedes living in Italy is partly autobiographical.
WLinda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish author and poet. She debuted in 1998 with the poetry collection Gör mig behaglig för såret. Her critical breakthrough came in 2011 with the short-story collection Grand Mal. Her first novel, Helioskatastrofen, was released in 2013.
WIrja Agnes Browallius was a Swedish teacher, novelist and short story writer. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1962.
WStig Halvard Dagerman was a Swedish journalist and writer. He was one of the most prominent Swedish authors writing in the aftermath of World War II, but his existential texts transcend time and place and continue to be widely published in Sweden and abroad.
WMargareta Ekström is a Swedish poet, novelist, children's writer, literary critic and film critic. She made her literary debut in 1960 with the short story collection Aftnar i S:t Petersburg. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1977.
WNinni Holmqvist, born 24 June 1958 in Lund and currently living in Scania, Sweden, is a translator and author of fiction. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories since 1995. Her novel The Unit, a dystopian novel published in 2006 and translated from Swedish into English by Marlaine Delargy with its paperback publication in 2009. The Unit has received critical attention both from major literary reviews and analysis in academic journals.
WEyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
WSelma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and teacher. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914.
WIvar Lo-Johansson was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school. His autobiographical 1979 memoir, Pubertet (Puberty), won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1979.
WEdith (Edita) Dagmar Emilia Morris, born Toll was a Swedish-American writer and political activist.
WKlas Östergren is a Swedish novelist, screenwriter, and translator.
WHjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the eyes of the flaneur. Söderberg is greatly appreciated in his native country, and is sometimes considered to be the equal of August Strindberg.
WSiri Margareta Augusta Suber, known as Margareta Suber, was a Swedish writer. She is best known as a novelist but was also a travel writer, translator, poet and children's writer.
WRudolf 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).
WFrans Birger Eugen Vikström was a Swedish writer and illustrator.
WLina Wolff is a Swedish novelist and short story writer.