WFrans Gunnar Bengtsson was a Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer. He was born in Tåssjö in Skåne and died at Ribbingsfors Manor in northern Västergötland.
WLars Anders Thomas de la Motte, born June 19, 1971 in Billesholm in Skåne County, is a Swedish crime writer.
WHjalmar Gullberg was a Swedish writer, poet and translator of Greek drama into Swedish.
WNinni Holmqvist, born 24 June 1958 in Lund and currently living in Scania, Sweden, is a translator and author of fiction. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories since 1995. Her novel The Unit, a dystopian novel published in 2006 and translated from Swedish into English by Marlaine Delargy with its paperback publication in 2009. The Unit has received critical attention both from major literary reviews and analysis in academic journals.
WMajken Johansson was a Swedish poet, writer and a Salvation Army soldier.
WHarriet Augusta Dorotea Löwenhjelm was a Swedish artist and poet. She mainly considered herself an artist. She died at Romanäs sanatory in Tranås after some years of tuberculosis.
WNils Artur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968.
WSara Mannheimer is a Swedish novelist. She hails from Gothenburg and was educated in the US, Holland, and the Czech Republic. Her debut novel Reglerna was nominated for the August Prize and won the debut writers' prize from Borås Tidning newspaper. Another novel Handlingen was nominated for Swedish Radio's best novel prize, and won the EU Prize for Literature.
WFritiof Nilsson Piraten, born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson was a Swedish author and lawyer, from the south-most province Skåne, which plays an important role in many of his books.
WSven Otto Rickard Nordqvist is a Swedish writer and illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus.
WÅke Joel Ohlmarks was a Swedish author, translator and scholar of religion. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Greifswald from 1941 to 1945. Together with the Deutsche Christen member Wilhelm Koepp he founded the institute for religious studies there in 1944. His most notable contribution to the field is his 1939 study of Shamanism. As a translator, he is notable for his Swedish version of the Icelandic Edda, of Shakespeare's works and of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the Qur'an and works by Dante, Nostradamus and others.
WKristina Ohlsson is a Swedish political scientist and award-winning writer.
WJesper Svenbro is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.
WHelena Thorfinn is a best-selling Swedish fiction writer and journalist, born in Lund in southern Sweden. Her books are noted for their interest in international development, poverty, human rights and "ex-pat experiences".
WElin Matilda Elisabet Wägner was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1944.