Four Nordin authorships featured in latest Swedish Book Review

The latest issue of Swedish Book Review (2025:2) turns its focus to “city writing”, exploring how contemporary Swedish authors capture urban life and transformation. We are delighted to see four of our authors featured in this edition.

Among them is Elisabeth Åsbrink, whose novel Abandonment appears in translation by Deborah Bragan-Turner. Abandonment is a powerful, multi-generational story spanning London, Stockholm and Thessaloniki.

The issue also features insightful reviews of three other Nordin Agency authors, highlighting the diversity and literary strength of Swedish writing today:

Bremmer’s research is exhaustive. […] [The Pioneers] is an overview of a long stretch of history seen through the eyes of the women who attempted to understand it, express it, and make it more fair and liveable for others.
– Kathy Saranpa on ‘The Pioneers’ by Fatima Bremmer

My favourite part of the book? The dazzling sense of presence on each page. Historic Gothenburg is a breathing object, and Hermanson spares no detail in documenting its bars, its dance halls, its markets and its lunch spots. It’s clear she has spent a lot of time walking the streets of the city and researching its historic establishments. Beneath the mystery is another story, a slice-of-life novel about a certain city at a certain time and the people who live in it: the drunks, the cops, the writers, the maids. This quotidian adoration contributes to the novel’s languid quality. This is a book you want to read slowly on a Sunday morning.
– Emma Olsson on ‘Deep in the Forest’ by Marie Hermanson

There are surrealistic elements to Body Double, and it can read almost as a fever dream, making readers consider how much of what people say in the book is true. What is true, what is false, and what might possibly be both at the same time? […] Body Double could be described as being like a queer, female version of a Paul Auster novel or perhaps like an updated version of a film by Hitchcock, or maybe as similar to David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
– B.J. Woodstein on ‘Body Double’ by Hanna Johansson