Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg is an internationally acclaimed writer and playwright whose work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. A former member of the Swedish Academy, she is a leading feminist and artist in her native Sweden and around the world. Her novel Faculty of Dreams received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2007 and was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her plays have been widely performed in Sweden as well as internationally. She has been awarded the European Union Prize for Literature, the Dobloug Prize, De Nios Winter Prize, the Selma Lagerlöf Prize and has been nominated for the August Prize five times. Her collection of short stories, Hunter in Huskvarna, was published in 2021. Her most recent novel, Farewell to Panic Beach, was published in 2024. Stridsberg is published by FSG in the US.