Comments on: Reading Books in Swedish? – How to Begin

By: Sophia

Sophia — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:07:19 +0000

Hej and hello,

for swedish books and more… have a look http://www.sophias-bokhandel.de

Best regards / med vänliga hälsningar
Sophia

By: Terry Langston

Terry Langston — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:05:53 +0000

I’m reading my 5th Swedish book ~ started with Stieg Larsson’s trilogy and thoroughly enjoyed them. It’s been 30 years since I studied the language in any depth, so it’s been thrilling to pick it up again. I just ordered a Kindle DX which I’m excited to try with the Swedish books.

Adlibris.com sells ebooks and paper books in Swedish. Amazon.com also has a large selection of the paper books, but not much selection of ebooks in Swedish.

I’m glad to find this blog ~ very helpful and informative.

By: Håkan Berg

Håkan Berg — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:48:38 +0000

http://www.bokia.se/categories/A/Barn-och-ungdom/ has books in swedish for youth and children.

By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:43:19 +0000

I’m looking to purchase a few children’s books written in Swedish for my wife, who is learning the language. Can someone point me to a website that sells them? Thanks so much!!!

By: Håkan Berg

Håkan Berg — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:16:53 +0000

Well, I never heard anybody claim that Tove Janssons books on ‘Mumintrollet’ was swedish, but I can imagine that some would beleave it was, because Tove do have a swedish name. At least it sounds very swedish, and the ‘son’ part in the family name is actually swedish for, yes, ‘son’. Jansson means ‘son of Jan’, a very common way to for a family name in Sweden during roughly the 15:th to the 17:th century.
We did have a television series based on Tove’s books, and the actors very carefully kept an obvious finnish accent, which would indicate the finnish origin of the characters.
But still, it is a common trade to ‘adopt’ other works as you suggest was done in this case.