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Karin Maria Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1940).

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Lars Jonas Holger Gardell is a Swedish novelist, playwright, screenwriter and comedian. He is the brother of religion scholar Mattias Gardell. He is well known for his books and plays in all of Scandinavia and also published in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Poland.

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Klara Elisabeth Johanson was a Swedish literary critic and essayist. She was unusually well educated for a woman in her city. She initially wrote for journals and newspapers before she and her partner spent five years curating the correspondence of Fredrika Bremer. She is known for introducing American writers in parallel to publishing her own books.

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Selma 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.

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Mark Levengood,, is a Finnish journalist, writer, and television host who is working in Sweden. He is a Swedish-speaking Finn who grew up in Helsinki. He is the husband of Jonas Gardell. They have one child each, a boy, who is Gardell’s biological child, and a girl, who is Levengood’s child. Levengood was born to an American father and a Sweden-Finnish mother.

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Bengt Lidforss was a prominent Swedish socialist, and an accomplished natural scientist and writer.

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Edward af Sillén is a Swedish screenwriter and director for stage, film and TV. He has translated and directed many highly successful theatre shows including Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, The Drowsy Chaperone, Bull, Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein and Art by Yasmina Reza.

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Birgitta Stenberg was a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. She was the 2005 winner of the Selma Lagerlöf Prize.

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Per Oscar Swartz is a Swedish entrepreneur, writer and blogger.