Author | Sara Stridsberg |
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Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Publisher | Albert Bonniers förlag |
Pages | 363 |
ISBN | 91-0-010726-3 |
Drömfakulteten (lit. The Dream Faculty) is a 2006 novel by the Swedish writer Sara Stridsberg. The main character of the narrative is the American radical feminist Valerie Solanas. The novel received the Nordic Council Literature Prize. [1] In 2011 it was voted as the best Swedish novel from the 2000s (decade) in a poll held by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, which involved one hundred Swedish critics, authors, journalists and publishers. [2] The Faculty of Dreams has been translated into Danish, English, Finnish, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Spanish and German. [3]
The English translation, The Faculty of Dreams, by Deborah Bragan-Turner, was nominated in March 2019 for the British Man Booker International Prize. [4]