Swedish Stories Travel On
The third distribution round of grants 2025 for international promotion of Swedish literature and drama has now been decided. In this round, grants have been awarded to 15 applications featuring a diverse range of literary events.
Four of the supported projects are:
Croatian Writers Society is supported for the Swedish participation in Lit link festival. Four Swedish writers are invited to participate in a three-day literary tour with evening readings in the coastal cities Labin and Rijeka, as well as in Zagreb, Croatia. A translated version of the author’s readings will be projected on screen during the live readings. Among the invited authors are Ella-Maria Nutti and Daniel Gustafsson.
The Embassy of Sweden in Washington has been granted funding for the literary project Voices from Sweden: Narratives on Stage and Page. The project includes author talks, staged readings featuring Ada Berger’s play She’ll Be Named Minou (Hon ska heta Minou) and a promotional five-city tour with Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Sisters (Systrarna). A literary program marking 250 years of Jewish life includes Joanna Rubin Dranger and Svante Weyler.
Deutscher Übersetzerfonds e.V. is granted for a ViceVersa workshop where five translators from Swedish to German and five translators from German to Swedish will gather for a week-long workshop and seminar at the Baltic Centre in Visby, Gotland. The group will discuss current projects, specific as well as common translation obstacles and the conditions for literary exchange between Sweden and Germany.
The literary festival Bogforum, in cooperation with Teater Republique, is hosting a series of literary events throughout the year. The festival is granted for their invitation of Sara Stridsberg, who will be interviewed by the Danish writer and artist Emma Rosenzweig. Stridsberg’s latest book Farewell to Panic Beach (Farväl till panic beach) was recently translated and published in Danish.
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International promotion of Swedish literature and drama, third round 2025
Grants for international promotion of Swedish literature and drama