Sjukdomen by Jonas Gardell5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A number of them have already been published in Swedish Book Review over the years. It is high time for a compendium volume of Inger’s best stories in English translation. The literary landscape has now been transformed and short stories are hot property. I have worked with Inger since the early 1980s, a time when we were told short stories, especially in translation, did not sell. She empathises absolutely with the painful lack of self-esteem of the young and vulnerable and explores the multiple faces, dark and light, of what we call ‘love’, notably in the story collections Rit (1991, 'Rite') and Den förunderliga kameleonten (1995, 'The Wonderful Chameleon') and Riktig kärlek (2001, 'Real Love'). She is skilled in the mimicry of everyday language. She excels in the short-story genre and her prose is controlled, sometimes dark and frequently wickedly humorous. ![]() She was memorably described by a critic as ‘a remarkable cross between Astrid Lindgren and Franz Kafka’, her stories for young people revealing a fascination with fantasy, fairytale and the gothic. Inger lives in Stockholm and is a fiction writer, graphic artist, cartoonist and stand-up comedian. ![]() Om snö och guld (On Snow and Gold, Norstedts, 2021, 490 pp) ![]()
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