MY SWEDISH CAREER: For many people, reading is – figuratively – a transformative process, with the power to transport you to far-flung lands and times past, present and future. For American author Florence Wetzel, her passion for Scandi noir novels transported her in a more literal sense, inspiring her to travel the way from New Jersey, USA, to Stockholm.
Linda Åkeson McGurk grew up in Southern Sweden and moved to the US years ago with her American husband. She had lived there for years and felt completely integrated in American society, until she had a baby and her notions of how to raise a child clashed with those of the rural Indiana town she calls home.
The editors behind a new anthology about immigrants' battle to reconcile their background with life in Sweden tell The Local why they chose to focus on women.
A handful of rare antique books that were stolen from the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket) and ended up in the US, were set to be returned in a ceremony in New York on Wednesday.
The Stockholm apartment that was home Sweden's most famous children's author Astrid Lindgren is set to be turned into a tourist attraction, her family has announced.
An association that promotes reading among children has become the first African group to win the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest prize for children's and young people's literature.
A steamy tale in which high-profile Swedish football coach Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson is caught naked on the sofa with a married woman has only seen the light of day thanks to a publishing error.
The best-selling autobiography of Swedish captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been short-listed for a prestigious literary award in his native country, the jury said on Monday.
Advertisement posters for a new children’s film have been pulled down over concerns that one of the pictured characters has stereotypical "racist" undertones.
Former Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot by a "lookalike" of Christer Petterson, for years the prime suspect in the investigation, according to a new book by Danish historian, Paul Smith.
The publisher of the Left Party's official newspaper has apologised to King Carl XVI Gustaf for publishing a recent book review that alleged he visited prostitutes with tax money, a claim not made in a recent biography about him.
Joakim Larsson, the younger brother of Millennium author Stieg Larsson, has published the full text of the last correspondence received from his sibling in an attempt to counter allegations that they had little contact.
The younger brother of Stieg Larsson has hit back at allegations made by the Millennium author's long-time partner by launching a website addressing a number of claims she makes in her new book.
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and the Royal Court have decided not to sue Lind & Co, the publisher of the book filled filled with previously unpublished details about the King's private life.
Britain's Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday that Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren will file for divorce in Sweden in an attempt to keep the details of what would be one of the world's largest settlements under wraps.
<b>Kurt Wallander, the brooding protagonist of Henning Mankell’s famed crime novels, recently came to United States’ television screens in a performance by Kenneth Branagh, giving viewers an unexpected opportunity for reflection, The Local’s Marge Thorell explains.</b>
The Italian Ambassador to Sweden has slammed a petition raised this week by a Swedish member of parliament in support of high profile Italian author Roberto Saviano.
A newly discovered fourth volume of the bestselling 'Millennium' crime trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson will not be published, his father said Wednesday.
