Litteraturens historia i Sverige

The History of Literature in Sweden is a well-written and inspiring handbook with fiction at its core. Within its covers are basic facts and overall perspectives on texts and authors, from the Smoke Stone to the present day. The fifth revised edition takes literature into the 21st century, and the reader encounters, among many other things, the new working-class literature, chick lit and the Swedish crime fiction boom. Literary icons such as Saint Birgitta, Selma Lagerlöf and August Strindberg are joined by contemporary authors such as Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Henning Mankell and Sara Stridsberg.
The previous editions of The History of Literature in Sweden and The History of Literature in the World were received with appreciative reviews, and both books are used in teaching at universities and colleges. A new layout and new four-color images make this edition even more appealing and reader-friendly. In short, Litteraturens historia i Sverige is a book for everyone who wants to orient themselves in almost a thousand years of Swedish literary history. In this edition, Bernt Olsson's and Ingemar Algulin's texts have been supplemented with new texts by Anna Williams, Åsa Arping, Annika Olsson, Boel Westin and Annelie Bränström Öhman, literary scholars working at various universities in Sweden.