Smile of a Midsummer Night ─ A Picture of Sweden

In Smile of the Midsummer Sun, best-selling author Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist present a very personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the far South, their journey takes them up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania to Laponian, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is the idyllic fjord in Bohulan, located in the Vastmanland region, as well as Malar Lake and Stockholm that they call home. Throughout, Gustafsson and Blomqvist are full of entertaining suggestions for excursions, including journeys through forests and moors where you can take in the odd elk or wolf along the way and visits to Strindberg’s and Kurt Tucholsky’s graves.

The first work of contemporary travel writing about Sweden by Swedish writers to have been translated into English,Smile of the Midsummer Sun is a loving and poetic ode to this beautiful nation and a must-have for anyone interested in Scandinavia.

Lars Gustafsson is one of Sweden’s most eminent authors. His award-winning works have been translated into fifteen languages.Agneta Blomqvist is a teacher of religion and literature. Deborah Bragen-Turneris the translator of Anne Sward’s Breathless and P. O. Enquist’s The Wandering Pine.