Sara Stridsberg

Winner of the Nordic Prize in Literature, acclaimed Swedish novelist Sara Stridsberg makes her American debut with Valerie, conjuring the life and mind of 1960s firebrand, American feminist, and author of the SCUM manifesto, Valerie Solanas. In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died; the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol; the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, where she was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather; and the mental hospitals where she was shut away. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.

A Novel

Valerie

Kärlekens Antarktis

Lo och hennes far gör nattliga utflykter i en gammal Jaguar genom de brinnande skogarna i en okänd europeisk stad. Lo är en dröm och en spegel där också andra öden skymtas. Dolores Haze som färdas ur Nabokovs roman mot barnsängsdödens Alaska. En tillfångatagen aphona i Jardin des Plantes i Paris som tränas av en vetenskapsman att börja teckna. En okänd mor som kör omkring i de upplysta motorvägarnas cirklar utanför städerna. Darling River är en storslagen och melankolisk roman om barnet utan barndom och kvinnan utan framtid

Doloresvariationer : roman

Darling river

tillägg till sexualteorin

Drömfakulteten

ode till min familj

Beckomberga

The international star Sara Stridsberg returns with The Antarctica of Love, an unnamed woman's tale of her murder, her brief life, and the world that moves on after she left it They say you die three times. The first time for me was when my heart stopped beating under his hands by the lake, and the second was when what was left of me was lowered into the ground in front of Ivan and Raksha at Solna Church. The third time will be the last occasion my name is spoken on earth. She was a neglected child, an unreliable mother, a sex worker, a drug user—like so many nameless victims of violent crime. But first she was a human being, a full, complicated person, and she insists that we know her fully as she tells her story from beyond the grave. We witness her short life, the harrowing murder that ended it, and her grief over the loved ones she has left behind. We see her parents struggle with guilt and loss. We watch her children grow up in adopted families and live imperfect lives. We feel her dreams, fears, and passions, even though we will never know her name. A heartrending existential drama by the acclaimed Swedish writer Sara Stridsberg, The Antarctica of Love is an unfliching testament of a woman on the margins, a tale of family lost and found, and a report of a murder in the voice of the victim. This novel of life after death unfolds in brief vignettes, brimming with unexpected tenderness and hope.

The Antarctica of Love

Deborah Bragan-Turner

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, and the mental hospitals where she was interned. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.

The Faculty of Dreams

A Gravitação do Amor

"På vägen hem passerar jag lasarettet, det är som en längtan som aldrig riktigt går över, längtan tillbaka till det som var då, efter att inte ha ett eget liv, att vara i början av någonting som man inte vet vad det är, att inte veta vad det ska bli av en."Berättelserna i Hunter i Huskvarna utspelar sig i trånga svenska landskap och ute i världen; mellan barndom och förbrukade liv, mellan sorg och livsgnista, mellan rå verklighet och saga. Öden som tillsammans skapar en svindlande mytologi om kärlek och överlevnad.

Hunter i Huskvarna

Berättelserna i "Hunter i Huskvarna" utspelar sig i trånga svenska landskap och ute i världen, mellan barndom och förbrukade liv, mellan sorg och livsgnista, mellan rå verklighet och saga. Det är valar och barer och nedlagda fabriker, det är städer och familjer i ruiner, ensamma divaner och näckrosor och rovdjur, begravningar och hämndbegär och hemliga sällskap och den eviga frågan om förlåtelse. Elva öden som tillsammans skapar en svindlande mytologi om kärlek och överlevnad. "När Vättern öppnar sig som ett isblått skimrande hav, det är när man kommer åkande norrifrån, jag har aldrig sett något sådant någon annanstans, när ljuset slår in i backspegeln då tänker jag att jag är i Los Angeles, att det här är mitt Los Angeles. Jag kör snabbt hela den sträckan, med en förväntan som inte kommer att infrias, men som är där varje gång, som om livet börjar precis där. Den känslan försvinner efter Tokeryd, när världen liksom krymper och sugs in som i en svart säck."

B.J. Woodstein (Translator)

Sara Lundberg (Illustrator)

The award-winning and beautiful story of a child coping with her father's absence. The book tackles a difficult subject with great tenderness, validating a child's experience of a parent suffering from depression.



Zoe’s dad isn’t home. She still sees him in photographs, laughing and playing tennis, but for now she can only visit him in a building where everyone looks sad and the walls are an ugly pink color. Some days Zoe’s dad is too sad to see her, but she goes to the hospital anyway. While waiting she meets Sabina who invites her to swim across the world. Zoe’s not sure it’s possible, but Sabina tells her, “A girl can do everything she wants.” Even though Sabina sometimes dives deep into her own thoughts, the two of them swim around the world many times that summer, until eventually Zoe’s dad is ready to come home.



The Summer of Diving is a book full of imagination and hope with a tender child’s-eye understanding of the world. Stridsberg’s story and Lundberg’s lush and colorful paintings reflect and validate a child’s feelings of loss and longing for closeness when a parent’s joy for living temporarily fades.

The Summer of Diving

Happy Sally

Medealand och andra pjäser

Vi går till parken

ode til min familie

Antarctica of Love

La autora recupera la vida de Valerie Solanas, con un lenguaje poético y provocador… en una sociedad estadounidense marcada pro la violecia, abusos, manipulaciones de prenga...

Anexo a una teoria sexual / Attached to a Sexual Theory

Escuela de suenos / The Dream Faculty

Monica Aasprong

Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2007 "Drømmefakultetet" er en roman, en litterær fantasi, og et rått, eksplosivt portrett av den amerikanske ekstremfeministen Valeria Solana. Hun var et ikon, berømt og beryktet kjent for to ting: Sitt manifest Scum (Society for Cutting Up Men) og for å ha prøvd å drepe Andy Warhol. Fortellingen om den evige, kompromissløse outsideren er skrevet i et nærmest hypnotisk språk det slår gnister av. Sara Stridsbergs suverene stilistiske lekenhet gjør denne romanen til uforglemmelig lesning.

Sara Stridsberg

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