Simple Swedish Podcast - #336 - Svensk litteratur

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

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Okay, then I say I, welcome to you. You listen on Simple Swedish Podcast. Hopeas that you're good and that you have had a really really heller. I came precisely back to Valencia. And I have been in, you have been in... in in two

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now, and it rainer. And I sit here and will be

a one, a off-snit on a Swedish literature.

So, on swensk literature also and there something that says

more about a land and a culture than literature so we go

through the literature today so history literature literature literature

and some people forfatter what is typically swansk and why it is so

what the swanskerns gillar to and why also I will also say

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Hope us see us there. Okay, but then, then, then we'll talk about Swedish literature. So first and

first and first of the most, and what is typical for Swedish literature and the Swedish books? And there are some the themean

that are on-the-autercomande, also who come and again that's that's that's

that is the nature and the weather for nature is very

for us and the and the weather is also an very very so a very

so a very so it there are many coplings to nature and to

the weather in the so we have the long, and the long, murk, calmed

winter and the light and glad summer and it's so-clart much metaphoristic in it that can

relate to our lives and our feelings and some things. And then we have we a concept

that is maybe very very Scandinavis and it's veemode and and veemot is like a

vacker sorrow or a slacking of sorrow and gladge also some a slessam but still

glad sorrow a slag a little chuv of an slack a kind of a such

a, um a tis sorry or melancholy over that something

is a lot or soon will to be to be a slant after

something that you don't that you are a little to describe but it's a slack

melancholy it is not deprimerande but there there there

there there there is something positive in it, but it is an slacks of sorrow, a lestom

a lot of sorrow. And this this is the wordet or melancholine it is a kind of a kind of often

there often fits not just in literature but also in music and film and so other things. It kind of, it's like, it's, like, that you know, that you wonderer and reflecter over life, or over ensamheten, or, yeah,

so, Vemort. And so have we, then, also, society's critique, also, critique, and, critique, most, Samhallet. And, it's, it's, you, that, that you're about

problem in the same or a rightvisor there came it a oretvisor

between fatty people and rica people or or not orvysor between men and

so things so so that's critical can also find as much of

and now I think I go go and through a little about Swedish Literature

History and then began on 800 talet atalet so on Vikinga

time and it is with the so-called ruckstenen and ruckstenen is

a strong stone with a long text in run script

runscript run-script, also the this script and the runes systemet with

runes it were the bookstever that the vikings and it is

the first literary work rucksten then when when Sweden when Sweden

when when the middletiden then was it type

just just the church that's and you're and you're most Latin for

to write so the Swedish sproket there's not really in script

but year year 14141 then overshatter Gustav Vasa or it was not

he personally who overshatted it but he let overshetta Bible to the first

going. So, on 1500 talet so overshatted the Bible to the

first going and this here lay the ground to the

Spanish script sprotet. It's so that it was Bible yeah it's

on many places and then so so that was start for the

Swedish scriptsprote Then under 1700th Talet Then, then then literature

would literature be little more folk so a manly people and not

just people and people began start satir and

began writing tidscripter a tidscrifter is an tidning

can you say not for new things but for something

just something just A tidescript. And this development with that literature became more

folkly it, it was under 1800 talet and it took far for that

on 1800 talet then then began that people go in school

and they started learn to learn to learn so And, for it the churchan that had

learned people to write people to and write people go in school and learn to learn to learn to learn to school and

it is also on 1800 talet that you can be social-critic in literature also.

And then then, on the the end of 1800 Talet, then he slung August

Strindberg in-genom. August Strindberg, an very- very-kend French

forefattar he revolutioned the the Swedish script-sproket and yeah,

for that he he's on a new set. He he's

more direct and little more as He's He's He's

He's He said He said He said He said And his Genombrots Roman

Ruda RUmmet And his his ectenskansk drama He did him international

But also very controversial So, a Roman A Roman It's It's important

It is A long book A long, shun-literate work. It is what we call a novel

on English. So, it is an Roman on the Spanish. And his first

Roman, Ruda Rummett from 1879, I talked I on, and he wrote also

ectenskaps drama. Also, drama on ectenskensk, also, relationser,

can you say. So August Trinberg, important, important. Then, then, under tidet 1900thal,

also the beginning of 1900thal, then began the, people, and people

were, more, books, about their own, their own, fatigial life,

so, And, a vanly folk started to write about a manly life, so more vardas realism

and so. And we have one example. Wilhelm Moberg. Very, very important and chend forfattar

Wilhelm Moberg. And he wrote Outvandrana. Utvandran is a series with four

books. And then It's actually about fatigua and people who went back

to America for to build a new life there all the in the end of

1800 and the beginning of 1900 was it very very

many many many many many many many many

who out to fat, and they outvandrated to America. So, this series, Uttarana, it was very, very strong, and it has been a filmer also.

So, call up that. And we have also Selma Lagerlough also, so-clart. And Selma Lagerlough also in the beginning of 1900thal. And she is actually the first the first woman

who took Nobel Prize at literature so she is from Sweden

and she wrote mistic sagor that was yeah that had much

magic it was much folk trust based in his

hemtractor in Varmland so can you also call up Selma Lagerv.

Then, so come we to the more moderna delen of literature history. So after the other world's-criget, after the Stora-Kriget, other-wheres, then, then, it became,

and ricker, and, and, you, the so-called Folkheimet. Folkhamet, it is a

political concept and a little sort of poetic name for the Swedish the Swedish Welffaird's

state. And this reflected in the literature also. And things

hands social and so on those things and so on 645 then came Pippie Longstrum

out Pippie Longstrum written of Astrid Lindgren Allas Swoer Astrid Lindgren

Alla Alaskar Astrid Lindgren And she revolutioned Barnliterature Not just

in Sweden but in the whole world and her her first book

that she was on Pippi Longstrum and this was a little who was self-stendig

and who lived self without the vuxna and without that the people

could be bestem over her and control her but she was completely

self-stendig and leke frit. And this was very, it was scandal on that

time. And she has written very many books that are very elsked

and they have been series and films and she has had a very, very strong

betide for Sweden. And she is actually one of the world's most

Kended Barnbook's and his books have been overshatted to more than 100 sprok.

So it is Astrid Lindgren. And then on 60 and 70 and 70 talen

it was when the were then the murk sider in the

Swedish Folkhamet. And we see to example it starts it's popular

with a decker a decker that is it is the that

is the that is English so we call it for deck

so mord histories with polices and detectives and

so so the swensks I love to listen

on polices that loses Mord, whole and the most

the most know of them are Martin Beck who is written of May

Shoeval and Per Valoe and it is, it is inbaked to

criticer the politics and so other things there also. And yeah

so it is much so so the I'm the decker

a decgare. An from-stowing forfattar is Camilla Lekberg she is the

modern drottning in this genre and her first success book is

Isprinsessan so then can you get and call up Camilla Leckberg

and a A forfattar is a person who scribes books, a forfattar. An another type of books are what we can't call it feel good.

It can't share a little like a motvict to all mod that the Swenskana laces. Like, to example, an man that is OVE.

and it and it's an argy, an unsam man who gets new grandar and it happened

little things written of Frederick Backman and it's a little so feelgood book and why

why why I love the swenksks then deckers because we talk about

that deck are you maybe the most popular genre and it is well for

that Swenska live in a very very a very a very land, a very

community. So you know very very good in the community and then you have

a beho of to feel a little spenning and I have

a ofsnit on why why deck it and

Nordic Noir is so popular. 286, ofslit number 286 is also on YouTube. So, can you call up. And some other

thing that is worth to name-a is that Nobel-priset gives you out in in Sweden, in Stockholm.

So there is a group on 18 people in Stockholm that call us for Svestska Academy.

And these 18 personer in the Swedish Academian they bestemmer every

year who who should get Nobel Priset in

literature. And I think to have with five infly

inslienserical Swedish masterverk. So this are also five books

who have had a strong invercant on Sweden and maybe in the world also so some of the most

most popular booker in the Swedish history and the first is Nils Holgershons

wonderful resa through Sweden of Selma Lagerf and Nils Holgerson is an

elack poeke that's that's forvandled to an so-called pussling and fling

and fligger on the rigging of a gauce so flyer over the whole Sweden. It's a

little of a geography lection also. It's from 2006. Then we Dr. Glass of Yalmar

Soudberg and this is an Roman that outspel in Stockholm. Dr. Glass, he met her a vicar a woman who is gifed with a hemps priest,

and he should help her. Then we have we, then, outvandran of Wilhelm Mowberg, as I talked about before. And it follows the young paret, Karl Oskar and Christina. And then finds also as musical. Christina from Duvemola.

Wow. So, something to call up on YouTube is to call up this here

Christina from Duvemola and maybe especially Helene Shoholms from

tradable you must find us also listen on it Helene Shohom

you must find us on YouTube that is a really goshud also and it

is from musical Christina from Duvemola that is based on out of Outvandran

Okay, so it was Outvandran Then we Pippi Longstrum so clart of Astrid

Lindgren from 1945 and Pipi Longstrum is nine years old and the

world's starkest flicca so she is really stark and she

She She's She's She's She's She does She has She has

Mastra Mastra Pengar And strunta in all Regler that Buxna

Mennichor So Yeah It's So, And then, So, we

And so we And so We'll Mordan book And it are Men who Hattar

Quinnor From 2005 of Stig Larson. And this is, I think, I think it is the most solded Swedish book, noonsign. And it is the first book in Millennium Trilogine.

And it's about journalist, Michael Blumquist, and Hackern, Lisbett Salander, and they're trying to lose a mystery. So it's a little of a decker, and an spendant. so so, so-clart

it must be with on the listan okay so we have got

in the Swedish literature hope that it was interesting I can also

recommend I'm also recommender that that's that that's

that's not number 182 that that's how you can't how you can't

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