Erland Josephson is best known as an actor. He has starred in many films under the direction of Ingmar Bergman and is perhaps most familiar for his portrayals of central figures in Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander. He has also been a premier stage actor for more …

Tobias Berggren was born in 1940 and published his first book of poetry, Det nödvändiga är inte klart (The necessary is not clear), in 1969. In the ensuing years he has published many works of poetry as well as political documents, and he enjoys a reputation as one of Sweden’s …

It turned into a wild party. Alain was in top form, and at three in the morning Elly had to come in with an ice pack for the commander of the destroyer, Captain Botev, who’d had so much to drink that he was hallucinating. Caroline was flirting with a navigation …

Jacques Werup was born in 1945 in Malmo in southern Sweden, where he still lives. He has published works in many different genres, including novels, works of poetry, musical compositions, and musical analyses. He made his literary debut in 1971 with Returbiljett Polen (Return ticket to Poland) but first gained …

I visit her, she stretches her bandaged arm toward me, has cut open her wrist with a knife; cut open her wrists with a knife, to saw into your own flesh, through the skin, sinews, veins. (Now they were walking along a picket fence in an area with lots of …

Edith (1851-1931) was the only one of Simon and Therese’s eight children who never got married. She wrote occasional verse and eulogies and acted in a drama in which the characters were called The Lie, A Deaf Citizen, A Jew, An Officer. She stood in front of the Tollare bazaar …

Why did he help my grandparents? What were his motives? I haven’t been able to find any clear answer. In an early sketch of the flight my grandfather quotes a German proverb: ‘Wohltun tragt Zinsen’ (Charity draws interest)—a reference to the fact that at an earlier time he had helped …

Kaj Schueler was born in Stockholm in 1949. Both his parents emigrated as teenagers from Nazi Germany to Sweden, where they met. They were involved in the Zionist movement and set out for Israel but decided to stay in Sweden after the war. Schueler is a journalist and assistant cultural …

Most of my dreams and plans had been tied up with Father. He was the one who brought home the great travel books, the exciting adventure stories, the boyish surprises. One evening he took me to the Roxy and we saw Charles Lindbergh fly over the Atlantic in The Spirit …

Her name was Katerina Alexandrovna and she was the widow of a Turkish officer—which was presumably the source of her notoriety, as her actual habits were beyond reproach. She lived with her two young daughters in a big yellow frame house on the outskirts of town. The fact that nobody …