Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg is one of Sweden’s foremost authors and playwrights, who had her international breakthrough with the publication of The Faculty of Dreams in 2006. The novel received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2007 and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages to date and her plays have been widely performed all across Sweden, as well as internationally. Stridsberg has been awarded the European Union Prize for Literature, the Dobloug Prize, De Nios Winter Prize, the Selma Lagerlöf Prize, and more, and has been nominated for the August Prize five times. Between 2016 and 2018, she was a member of the Swedish Academy; the cultural institution responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a theatre translator, Stridsberg has translated plays by Sarah Kane and Sam Sheppard, among others, and as a playwright she is currently under commission from the Stockholm City Theatre and House of Culture and the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

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