Swedish American Historical Society of Wisconsin

The first Fika meeting in 2025 took place Saturday January 25 at Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. About 40 people enjoyed Cookie Anderson presentation of Swedish Authors. She reviewed 14 different writers from the 18th century to the present.

As she announced before the meeting – “Swedes are incredibly gifted writers. To name a few: Astrid Lindgren was Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is best known for several children’s book series, including Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, and Karlson-on-the-roof.  Henning Mankell, was a Swedish crime writer best known for a series of mystery novels starring Inspector Kurt Wallander. Steig Larsson, writer of the second-best-selling fiction author in the world for 2008 of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the bestselling book in the United States in 2010 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.

Fredrik Backman’s novel A Man Called Ove was adopted in the movie A Man Called Otto in 2022 starring Tom Hanks.

Please find Cookie’s presentation of all authors here. Presentation Link.

What did you learn from Cookies presentation? Here is the quiz that she gave the participants of the meeting before her presentation. We make it easier on this blog, here are the questions.

SWEDISH WRITERS QUIZ

•  1. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? Extra point for naming one of her books.
• 2. What filmmaker who made many many films also wrote many scripts? Name a film. Extra point for the name of one of his wives.
• 3. The book and film, A Man Called Ove, was written by which Swedish writer? Extra points for naming another book he wrote.
• 4. A favorite childhood book by Astrid Lindgren is called?
• 5. A series of 3 bestselling books came out some years back by Steig Larsson. Name one of the trilogy: extra points for all three!
• 6. Vilhelm Moberg wrote a 4 volume series called the Emigrants. What was it about?
• 7. Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote about a male detective series situated in Stockholm. What was the name of the series? Who was the detective?
• 8. Henning Mankell wrote many detective books. BBC created a series for television of one of his detectives. What was the series called? Extra points for the first name of the detective. Extra extra points for who starred in the series?

Here are the answers….

Interested in Swedish movies? You can find these on Netflix.