Susanna Alakoski

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Susanna Alakoski 2010

Jaana Susanna Emilia Alakoski Söderlund (born May 16, 1962 in Vaasa , Finland ) is a Swedish- Finnish social worker, journalist and writer who lives in Sweden and writes in the Swedish language.

Life

Susanna Alakoski's parents moved to Sweden as migrant workers in 1965 . She grew up in Ystad in southern Sweden .

According to her own statements, Susanna Alakoski wrote her debut novel Svinalängorna for 13 years before it was published in 2006. Svinalangorna (for example: pig houses, pig burrows) was awarded the most important Swedish literary prize, the August Prize , in the year of publication . The novel has now been sold more than 500,000 times in Sweden and featured on the reading lists of Swedish schools and universities as a recommendation in sociology and psychology .

The novel was made into a film by Pernilla August in 2010 . The film Bessere Zeiten and the German translation of the book of the same name were released in Germany in 2011.

Alakoski lives in Stockholm , writes for the newspapers "Dagens Arbete" and Aftonbladet and is active in gender politics.

She is married to the writer Mats Söderlund .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Svinalangorna novel, 2006
    • Better times . Translated from the Swedish by Sabine Neumann. With an afterword by Karen Nölle and Christine Gränke. edition five, Graefelfing 2011, ISBN 978-3-942374-10-1 .
  • with Karin Nielsen: Tala om klass , 2006
  • Lyckliga slut: sjutton berättelser om vardagsvåldet , Stockholm: Ordfront, 2007 ISBN 9789170372797
  • with Amanda Mogensen: Fejkad orgasm , 2008
  • Håpas du trifs bra i fengelset Roman, Stockholm: Bonnier, 2010 ISBN 978-9-100124-35-9

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personal data
SURNAME Alakoski, Susanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Söderlund, Jaana Susanna Emilia Alakoski (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Finnish social worker, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaasa , Finland