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Sara Stridsberg

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Sara Stridsberg (n. 1972 in Solna, Sweden) is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.

In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Juristutbildningen ur ett genusperspektiv 1999
  • Det är bara vi som är ute och åker 2002

Fiction

  • Happy Sally 2004
  • Drömfakulteten 2006

Awards