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PoetryKlagevisa över denna torra och kalla vårLars Wivallius · 1642not translated into EnglishA sung prayer for the return of spring, in seventeenth-century Sweden.Literature
PoetryHerculesGeorg Stiernhielm · 1658not translated into EnglishIn the mid-seventeenth century, an ancient moral fable set into Swedish verse for the young nobility.Literature
PoetryWeneridSkogekär Bärgbo · 1680not translated into EnglishIn the seventeenth century, a poet hiding behind a pseudonym puts an unrequited love into Swedish sonnets.Literature
PoetryHelicons BlomsterLars Johansson (Lucidor) · 1689not translated into EnglishA commissioned poet whose entire body of work survives only because a friend had kept the loose sheets.Literature
PoetrySvenska frihetenOlof von Dalin · 1742not translated into EnglishIn the wake of a queen's death, a long poem calls on the Swedes to keep their freedom and their unity.Literature
PoetryDen sörgande turturduvanHedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht · 1743not translated into EnglishIn the mid-eighteenth century, a young widow turns into songs a mourning that she describes without softening it.Literature
PoetryFredmans epistlarCarl Michael Bellman · 1790not translated into EnglishA drunken watchmaker recounts in songs the Stockholm of taverns, ancient gods and brandy.Literature
TheatreBacchanterna eller FanatismenErik Johan Stagnelius · 1822not translated into EnglishAt the beginning of the nineteenth century, a mystical poet stages the clash between renunciation and sacred intoxication.Literature
PoetryFrithiof's SagaFrithiofs sagaEsaias Tegnér · 1825At the beginning of the nineteenth century, an Icelandic saga turned into Swedish verse gives Europe its image of the ancient North.Literature
TheatreLycksalighetens öPer Daniel Amadeus Atterbom · 1827not translated into EnglishAt the start of the nineteenth century, an old tale of an enchanted island becomes a great lyrical drama on the price of happiness.Literature
NovelThe Queen's DiademDrottningens juvelsmyckeCarl Jonas Love Almqvist · 1834In 1792, around a regicide at a masked ball, a being whom no one can name awakens every passion.Literature
NovelThe Rose of TistelonRosen på TistelönEmilie Flygare-Carlén · 1842On an island off the Swedish west coast, a crime that a whole household protects weighs on those who know of it.Literature
TaleSvenska folksagor och äfventyrGunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius · 1844not translated into EnglishThe tales of the southern provinces, noted down from those who still told them, in the first collection of its kind published in Sweden.Literature
TheatreEtt resande teatersällskapAugust Blanche · 1848not translated into EnglishPenniless actors want to perform great theatre in a provincial barn.Literature
NovelHerthaFredrika Bremer · 1856In the middle of the nineteenth century, a young woman refuses the guardianship then imposed on unmarried women.Literature
NovelSingoallaViktor Rydberg · 1865In the fourteenth century, a knight's son and a young Romani woman love each other on the margins of two worlds.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreTrue WomenSanna kvinnorAnne Charlotte Leffler · 1883In a bourgeois family of the 1880s, a daughter stands up to a father who is squandering the family fortune.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelMoneyPengarVictoria Benedictsson · 1885In Scania in the 1870s, a gifted teenage girl sees her dreams sacrificed to a marriage for money.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetrySvenska bilderCarl Snoilsky · 1886not translated into EnglishFrom a voluntary exile, a poet turns two and a half centuries of Swedish history into ballads.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesSensitiva AmorosaOla Hansson · 1887At the end of the nineteenth century, nine short tales in which a trifle is enough to undo a love.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreMiss JulieFröken JulieAugust Strindberg · 1889On a single festive night, the master's daughter and a servant challenge each other, across the barriers of rank.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryLegender och visorOscar Ivar Levertin · 1891not translated into EnglishA critic steeped in naturalism turns, in grief, to legends and ballads.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryGuitar and ConcertinaGuitarr och dragharmonikaGustaf Fröding · 1891Around 1890, two voices share a poet: the grave guitar and the laughing concertina.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesThe Charles MenKarolinernaVerner von Heidenstam · 1898At the beginning of the eighteenth century, a warrior king leads his soldiers, and with them his country, into an endless war.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryFridolins visor och andra dikterErik Axel Karlfeldt · 1898At the turn of the century, a man of letters who has returned to the land of his fathers begins to sing in Dalarna.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Book about the Little BrotherBoken om lille-brorGustaf af Geijerstam · 1900In Stockholm at the end of the nineteenth century, a writer tells of his married happiness, already under threat.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesThanatosPer Hallström · 1900not translated into EnglishAt the turn of the century, a short-story writer devotes a whole book to death, in its most varied forms.Literature
PoetryMarionetternaBo Bergman · 1903not translated into EnglishAt the turn of the century, a Stockholm poet sees men as puppets held by strings.Literature
NovelDoctor GlasDoktor GlasHjalmar Söderberg · 1905At the turn of the century, a doctor examines in his diary whether he has the right to act against a man.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Wonderful Adventures of NilsNils Holgerssons underbara resa genom SverigeSelma Lagerlöf · 1906A mischievous boy shrunk as a punishment flies over all the provinces of the country, carried by a migratory bird.Literature
NovelGuds vackra världMartin Koch · 1916not translated into EnglishBetween a peasant parish of Bergslagen and the slums of Stockholm, the sense of justice of the countryside confronts the life of a city criminal.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetrySvarta balladerDan Andersson · 1917not translated into EnglishAt the beginning of the twentieth century, a poet of the Swedish forests sings of vagabonds, musicians and the thirst for elsewhere.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Markurells of WadköpingMarkurells i WadköpingHjalmar Bergman · 1919Over the course of a single examination day, a small Swedish town sees two families and two worlds collide.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelDownstreamSelambsSigfrid Siwertz · 1920The children of a dilapidated estate grow up without guidance, then throw themselves into the race for fortune.Literature
CinemaA Mother's FightThora van DekenJohn W. Brunius · 1920A mother takes the law into her own hands to save her daughter's right to an inheritance.Cinema
CinemaThe Phantom CarriageKörkarlenVictor Sjöström · 1921The coachman of the dead comes for a drunkard on New Year's Eve and shows him what he has left behind.Cinema
CinemaThe Saga of Gösta BerlingGösta Berlings sagaMauritz Stiller · 1924A disgraced pastor lives for feasting with ruined noblemen, and all the women who become attached to him suffer for it.Cinema
PoetryKriser och kransarBirger Sjöberg · 1926not translated into EnglishA songwriter loved by all leaves the idyll behind and begins to write something that no one expected from him.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelLacemaker Lekholm Has an IdeaSnörmakare Lekholm får en idéGustaf Hellström · 1927In a small garrison town, a craftsman dreams of raising his family through his sons' education.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelFröknarna von PahlenAgnes von Krusenstjerna · 1930not translated into EnglishIn the Swedish nobility of the beginning of the century, women seek to live and love as they please, against the conventions of their milieu.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaFor Her SakeFör hennes skullPaul Merzbach · 1930Having come to claim the price of a fur, a young man finds himself the star of a revue and the rival of a husband.Cinema
PoetryKärlek i tjugonde sekletHjalmar Gullberg · 1933not translated into EnglishLove taken from both sides, the old and the modern, and a god who passes by without being recognised.Literature
NovelKvinnor och äppelträdMoa Martinson · 1933not translated into EnglishTwo girls grow up in the working-class districts of an industrial town, and the book stays on their side.Literature
CinemaIntermezzoGustaf Molander · 1936A famous violinist leaves his family for his daughter's young piano teacher.Cinema
NovelStatarnaIvar Lo-Johansson · 1937not translated into EnglishOn the great Swedish estates, the life of day labourers paid in kind, over two centuries, up to the first strikes.Literature
EssayLort-SverigeLudvig Nordström · 1938not translated into EnglishA report of 1938 on the unhealthy housing of the Swedish countryside, broadcast on the radio before becoming a book.Literature
NovelKallocainKarin Boye · 1940A chemist invents a substance that forces people to give up their thoughts, in a state that already listens to everything.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaA CrimeEtt brottAnders Henrikson · 1940A magistrate celebrates his sixtieth birthday on the day his murdered brother is found, and the murderer is one of the household.Cinema
PoetryFärjesångGunnar Ekelöf · 1941A man keeps to the margins while the war lasts, and makes of this distance a way of thinking in verse.Literature
Poetrymannen utan vägErik Lindegren · 1942not translated into EnglishThe sonnet kept for its framework and broken in everything else, in a book written in wartime.Literature
CinemaTormentHetsAlf Sjöberg · 1944A schoolboy tormented by a sadistic teacher loves a young woman terrorised by a man she refuses to name.Cinema
PoetryTideräkningKarl Vennberg · 1945not translated into EnglishAs the war ends, a poet questions all the beliefs of his time, his own included.Literature
NovelPippi LongstockingPippi LångstrumpAstrid Lindgren · 1945A girl of prodigious strength lives alone in her house, and the world of grown-ups cannot withstand her.Literature
NovelOmLars Ahlin · 1946not translated into EnglishA father and a son driven out of a home look for a new roof over their heads, in a novel that breaks with the rules of the genre.Literature
EssayGerman AutumnTysk höstStig Dagerman · 1947A young reporter from the North crosses a country in ruins and sees human beings there rather than a guilty people.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaForeign HarbourFrämmande hamnHampe Faustman · 1948Swedish sailors wonder what the cargo they are made to load for Spain really contains.Cinema
NovelThe EmigrantsUtvandrarnaVilhelm Moberg · 1949Peasants of a poor parish decide to leave for America, and first they must cross the sea.Literature
NovelBarabbasPär Lagerkvist · 1950A convict released in place of another spends his life circling the death he did not die.Literature
CinemaGirl with HyacinthsFlicka och hyacinterHasse Ekman · 1950A writer tries to find out why his neighbour took her own life, and each of those he questions knew her poorly.Cinema
CinemaOne Summer of HappinessHon dansade en sommarArne Mattsson · 1951A summer in the countryside, two young people in love, and a village that does not take kindly to it.Cinema
NovelTjärdalenSara Lidman · 1953not translated into EnglishA peasant finds his work destroyed, and a whole hamlet must decide what it owes to the wounded culprit.Literature
CinemaThe Great AdventureDet stora äventyretArne Sucksdorff · 1953Two little boys hide an otter for a whole winter, while the forest follows its seasons.Cinema
PoetryAniara: A Review of Man in Time and SpaceAniaraHarry Martinson · 1956A ship of emigrants leaves a poisoned Earth and is lost in space, in a long poem of the atomic age.Literature
CinemaThe Seventh SealDet sjunde insegletIngmar Bergman · 1957A knight returned from the Crusades finds Death waiting for him, and proposes a game of chess to hold him off for a while.Cinema
NovelThe Days of His GraceHans Nådes tidEyvind Johnson · 1960A defeated man who has gone over to the service of the victor writes his life long afterwards, and weighs what he has done.Literature
CinemaRaven's EndKvarteret KorpenBo Widerberg · 1963A young worker who wants to write awaits a publisher's reply, in a poor neighbourhood where his family is falling apart.Cinema
CinemaTo LoveAtt älskaJörn Donner · 1964A young widow takes a stranger into her home who becomes her lover, without knowing what will become of it.Cinema
CinemaDocking the BoatAtt angöra en bryggaTage Danielsson · 1965A sailing boat loaded with the alcohol for a crayfish party cannot manage to dock at the island where it is awaited.Cinema
CinemaNight GamesNattlekMai Zetterling · 1966A man brings his fiancée back to the house of his childhood, and what he finds there cannot be told.Cinema
NovelThe Flight of the EagleIngenjör Andrées luftfärdPer-Olof Sundman · 1967Three men set off by balloon for the pole in 1897, and one of them tells how one decides to go all the same.Literature
CinemaI Am Curious (Yellow)Jag är nyfiken – en film i gultVilgot Sjöman · 1967A young woman questions her country in front of a camera, and the camera ends up turning on those who hold it.Cinema
CinemaHugo and JosephineHugo och JosefinKjell Grede · 1967A little girl from a parsonage who has no one meets a boy who obeys nothing, and the summer passes.Cinema
CinemaA Swedish Love StoryEn kärlekshistoriaRoy Andersson · 1970Two teenagers fall in love one summer, while the adults around them sink into stagnation.Cinema
CinemaThe EmigrantsUtvandrarnaJan Troell · 1971A family of farmers from Småland decides to leave for America, and first they must cross the ocean.Cinema
CinemaSummer ParadiseParadistorgGunnel Lindblom · 1977Every summer, a family gathers in a villa in the archipelago, and the old grudges return with it.Cinema
CinemaThe Charter TripSällskapsresanLasse Åberg · 1980A shy Swede discovers group holidays in the sun, among compatriots who are nothing like him.Cinema
CinemaMarmalade RevolutionMarmeladupproretErland Josephson · 1980A man leaves his wife over a jar of jam, and the press turns it into a social phenomenon.Cinema
CinemaLittle IdaLiten IdaLaila Mikkelsen · 1981A little girl arrives in a village that hates her mother, and waits for peace to put everything right.Cinema
CinemaMontenegroDušan Makavejev · 1981An American woman bored by Swedish comfort discovers the world of an immigrants' cabaret.Cinema
TheatreNatten är dagens morLars Norén · 1982not translated into EnglishA family runs a failing hotel, and everything is played out in a single night in the kitchen.Literature
NovelDykungens dotterBirgitta Trotzig · 1985not translated into EnglishA mother cannot love her daughter, and what she withholds from her passes to the next generation.Literature
CinemaMy Life as a DogMitt liv som hundLasse Hallström · 1985While his mother is being treated, a boy spends the summer in the countryside among big-hearted adults.Cinema
CinemaDemonerCarsten Brandt · 1986A couple tearing each other apart draw their neighbours into their quarrel, for the space of one night.Cinema
CinemaSeppanAgneta Fagerström-Olsson · 1987Around a factory, a director's daughter and the children of workers who came from all over Europe grow up together.Cinema
CinemaStaden i mitt hjärtaAnders Wahlgren · 1992The old heart of a capital, razed over two decades, seen again by a child of the neighbourhood who became a filmmaker.Cinema
CinemaShow Me LoveFucking ÅmålLukas Moodysson · 1998In a place where nothing happens, a sixteen-year-old girl loves another girl and tells no one.Cinema