For over a century, hundreds of authors, artists and journalists both up and coming and well-established have been the recipients of support from a range of Bonnier-based foundations. This year alone over SEK 1.5 million was awarded from five stipend funds.

For example, the Albert Bonnier Foundation 100^th Anniversary Stipend Fund established in 1937 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Albert Bonniers Förlag, supports writers who already have a body of work but deserve extra support that the fund can give.

The roster of past recipients is an honor roll of writers whose work is now part of the canon of Swedish culture, from novelist Hjalmar Söderberg and children’s author- illustrator Elsa Beskow, to ground-breaking journalist and feminist Barbro Alving, troubadour Evert Taube and Tove Jansson of Moomin fame. And years before they each received the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pär Lagerkvist, Harry Martinson and Tomas Tranströmer all received the stipend – in fact all three received it twice.

“The stipendium means extremely much to me as a hardworking translator,” says Natalie Lantz, one of ten who received the stipend this year. A translator of Hebrew to Swedish, her most recent work is David Grossman’s Sus echad nikhnas le-bar (A Horse Walks Into a Bar) or En häst gå in på en bar in her translation. “The generous stipend buys me time for research, time to listen to texts with sensitivity. It’s an honor to be acknowledged for the results of the delicate craft that the process of translation requires.”

Translator Natalie Lantz, Albert Bonnier Foundation 100th Anniversary Stipend Fund recipient (photo: Karl Gabor)