Digital author talk - Vinthundarna

At Jörn's Library, you can see ten authors divided into six author talks shown on our projector screen during the spring of 2025, via Library Play, which is a streaming service from Stockholm City Library. See below.

The author talks are recorded from Malmö City Library and today you will meet Vinthundarna, "The Greyhounds", Sara Stridsberg, Jenny Tunedal, Malin Nord, Linda Örtenblad och Gertrud Hellbrand. The conversation is held in Swedish.

From 1998 to 2000, Sara Stridsberg, Jenny Tunedal, Malin Nord, Linda Örtenblad, and Gertrud Hellbrand attended the writer's program at Biskops Arnö Folk High School, and together they became the core of the writer's group Vinthundarna (The Greyhounds).

However, Vinthundarna extended far beyond the written word on the page and also functioned as a kind of executive committee within the anonymous collective S.K.A.M., which worked to dismantle patriarchy's power over literature.

For several years, they published manifestos, edited journals, organized alternative award shows, and hosted other events. They performed readings in bikinis and ape masks. All of this was done with the goal of "liberating the Easter witches and intellectual whores of literature from isolation in a domineering literary public."

A quarter-century has passed since the collective was formed. The members of Vinthundarna have all debuted, each with some reference to a greyhound woven into their debut works, and are now celebrated authors. But the feminist struggle they championed has, during this time, faced recurring backlash.

Now, 25 years later, Vinthundarna reunite on the Authors' Stage to discuss this, how the collective influenced their writing, and where they stand today both aesthetically and politically.

Photo: Peter Holgersson, Sandra Lee Pettersson och Sara Mac Key 

Monday 28/4 at 6:00 PM
Jörn's library

Arr: Skellefteå Municipality/Jörn's Library

Other author talks during the spring:

17/3 Rachel Cusk in conversation with Mats Almegård. The conversation will be held in English.

7/4 Lena Andersson in conversation with Sonja Schwarzenberger. The conversation is held in Swedish

12/5 Fady Joudah in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad. The conversation will be held in English.

26/5 Daniel Kehlmann in conversation with Cecilia Hansson. The conversation will be held in English.

Play Library

Biblioteket Play is a streaming service from Stockholm's city library. Here you can watch programs about literature, culture and education. Every year, lots of exciting author talks, lectures, quizzes and other fun events are arranged at our libraries.

Some of the programs are recorded so you can watch them in your library or from home, and these are collected on the Play Library.