Sara Stridsberg is an acclaimed author and playwright. With her picture book The Summer of Diving, illustrated by Sara Lundberg, she was shortlisted to the prestigious August Prize for the fifth time. Sara Stridsberg got her international breakthrough with Drömfakulteten (The Faculty of Dreams) for which she was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize and nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2018.
In January 2021, Sara Stridsberg became a member of Samfundet de Nio (Society of the Nine). She has previously been a member of the Swedish Academy, from 2016 to 2018.
