Risk that books will stop being translated to Swedish – young people read in English

Young people in Sweden are reading more and more books in English and that means that fewer books will be translated into Swedish in the future, according to Daniel Sandström at Albert Bonnier's publishing house.

Research at Gothenburg University last year indicates that young people are getting better at understanding academic English, but worse at understanding academic Swedish.

Alexander Freudenthal who works at a Stockholm bookshop says: ”A majority of Swedes are not as good in English as they think they are, I know we love the language and... But we miss the nuances and let's face it, nuances are tough to get.”