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Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg (2 July 1869 – 14 October 1941) was a Swedish novelist, short story writer, playwright 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 .
The term Historietter ("Storyettes") was Söderberg's own invention for his short stories first published in literary magazines and newspapers in the late 1890s and collected in this book in 1898. With its innovative and distinctly personal style Historietter is regarded as a classic book in Swedish literature. [1] [2]
Hence Swedish language literature has a considerable following in Finland, with several well-known Swedish-speaking Finnish writers, such as Bo Carpelan, Christer Kihlman and Tove Jansson. Jansson, perhaps best known for her Moomin books for children, wrote novels and short stories for adults, including Sommarboken, (1972, The Summer Book).
Swedish short story writers (1 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Swedish short stories" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Drottningar i Kungahälla (1899; short stories). Translated as The Queens of Kungahälla and Other Sketches From a Swedish Homestead (Jessie Bröchner, 1901; C. Field, 1917) En herrgårdssägen (1899; short stories). Translated as The Tale of a Manor and Other Sketches (C. Field, 1922) Jerusalem: två berättelser. 1, I Dalarne (1901; novel).
Pages in category "Swedish short story collections" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H.
Swedish short stories (2 C, 2 P) Swedish short story collections (1 C, 2 P) Swedish speculative fiction (10 C) This page was last edited on 5 August 2013, at 01:02 ...
Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature [1] he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.