Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg in 2011
Born	Sara Brita Stridsberg (1972-08-29) 29 August 1972 Solna, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Period	1999–
Notable works	Drömfakulteten Darling River Beckomberga. Ode till min familj.

Sara Brita Stridsberg (born 29 August 1972 in Solna, Stockholm County) is a Swedish author and translator. Her first novel, Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer, who in 1939 had become the first Scandinavian woman to swim the English Channel.

In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty),^[1] which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

Svenska Dagbladet called Stridsberg "one of our foremost nature poets" and considered her among the best in contermporary Swedish literature while noting that Stridsberg's novels are alway discomforting to read.^[2]

In 2016, Stridsberg was elected to the 13th chair on the Swedish Academy previously occupied by Gunnel Vallquist.^[3] She was inducted into the Academy on 20 December 2016.^[4]

Bibliography

• Juristutbildningen ur ett genusperspektiv (non-fiction, 1999)
• Det är bara vi som är ute och åker (non-fiction, 2002)
• Happy Sally (novel, 2004)
• Drömfakulteten (novel, 2006)
• Darling River (novel, 2010)
• Beckomberga: Ode till min familj (novel, 2014)
• American hotel (short story, 2016)

Plays

• 2006 – Valerie Jean Solanas ska bli president i Amerika
• 2009 – Medealand
• 2012 – Dissekering av ett snöfall
• 2015 – Beckomberga
• 2015 – Konsten att falla
• 2016 – American Hotel

Awards

• 2004 The Sveriges Essäfond Prize
• 2006 Aftonbladet's Literature Prize
• 2007 The Nordic Council's Literature Prize^[5]
• 2013 Dobloug Prize
• 2010 Visiting professor Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2015 European Union Prize for Literature (Sweden) for Beckomberga – ode till min familj (The Gravity of Love)^[6]

References