Sara Stridsberg

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Sara Stridsberg (n. 1972 in Solna, Sweden) is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.

In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Non-fiction 1.2 Fiction 2 Awards

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Non-fiction

• Juristutbildningen ur ett genusperspektiv 1999
• Det är bara vi som är ute och åker 2002

[edit] Fiction

• Happy Sally 2004
• Drömfakulteten 2006

[edit] Awards

• The Sveriges Essäfond Prize 2004
• Aftonbladet's Literature Prize 2006
• The Nordic Council's Literature Prize 2007 [1]