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Members have published fiction, essays, poetry and plays in translation as well as articles and reviews. Many of our members have won awards for their work.
Good Night, My Darling. Novel by Inger Frimansson (Pleasure Boat Studio, April 2007) Translated by Laura Wideburg.
An excerpt of Margareta Horiba's translation of Hjalmar Bergman's The Girl in Tails was published in the Spring 2006 issue of Scandinavian Review.
"Absinthe: The Story of a Blue Titmouse". Excerpt from the book of the same name by Niklas Rådström, published in Absinthe: New European Writing Volume 5 (2006). Translated by Laura Wideburg.
Inner China: A Tale, by Eva Sjödin, (Litmus Press 2005) translated by Jennifer Hayashida
A Story About Mr. Silberstein. Novel by Erland Josephson (Northwestern University Press/Hydra Books, 2001). Translated by Roger Greenwald.
The Serious Game. Novel by Hjalmar Söderberg (Marion Boyars, reprinted 2003). Translated by Eva Claeson.
A Special Relationship: The Ties Between Sweden and the United States, by Roger Älmeberg, 2007. Translated by Verne Moberg.
Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science. Stefan Arvidsson (University of Chicago Press, 2006) Translated by Sonia Wichmann.
Views from a Tuft of Grass. Nature essays by Harry Martinson (Green Integer Press, 2005). Translated by Erland Anderson and Lars Nordström.
De nya utvandrarna. Tio svenskar i nordvästra USA berättar by Lars Nordström. (Edition Edda, 2005). In Swedish.
A Little Catechism for the Lower Class, by August Strindberg, 1884 or 1885. Translated by Verne Moberg.
More Beautiful Things for Everyday Living by Gregor Paulsson,
in KEY TEXTS IN SWEDISH DESIGN HISTORY, Lucy Creagh and Helena Kåberg,
eds., translated by Verne Moberg
What Became Words by Claes Andersson (Sun & Moon Press, 1996). Translated by Rika Lesser.
Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg (Action Books, 2005). Translated by Johannes Göransson.
North in the World. Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen (University of Chicago Press, 2002). Translated, edited and introduced by Roger Greenwald.
A Child is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi (Princeton University Press, 1993). Translated with an introduction by Rika Lesser.
Excerpt from Mozart's Third Brain (CIV) by Göran Sonnevi in the online magazine Words Without Borders. Translated by Rika Lesser.
The North! To the North! Five Swedish Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001). Translated by Judith Moffett.
"In the Moon-Grey Room" by Niklas Rådström. Fine Madness #29 (September 2004). Translated by Laura Wideburg.
The Time in Malmö on the Earth by Jacques Werup (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1989. Distributed by HarperCollins, Toronto). Translated by Roger Greenwald.
My Astrid! by Vladimir Oravsky and Kurt Peter Larsen, translated by Verne Moberg for a reading at Columbia University (Nov, 2007)
FAMILY NIGHT by Danish playwright Stig Dalager (World Premiere, Shotgun Productions, New York City, 2006). Directed and translated by Robert Greer.
FACES by Danish playwright Stig Dalager (World Premiere, Theatre Studio, Inc., New York City, 2005). Directed and translated by Robert Greer.
Alva & Gunnar: 91 Days in the Long-Distance Relationship of the Myrdals One Summer During World War II , by Swedish playwright Hans Hederberg (Staged reading at Deutsches Haus, New York City, 2005). Translated by Verne Moberg and directed by Robert Greer.
Hanna’s Midsummer by Margareta Garpe, translated by
Verne Moberg for a reading at Columbia University (Apr 2004)
Scandinavia Off-Broadway, (CD series, Swedish Program at Columbia University). Produced by Verne Moberg, directed by Robert Greer.
Rika Lesser reviews Contemporary Jewish Writing in Sweden by Peter Stenberg in American Book Review (Sept-Oct 2005, Volume 26, Number 6, pages 10 & 12).
"Pettson and Findus charm children and adults alike" by Laura Wideburg (World Literature Today, September 2005)
"Swedish Literary Translation in the USA and Canada" by Laura Wideburg (ATA Conference Proceedings, 2005).
See also the list of awards received by
members.