Liv Strömquist (born February 3, 1978) is a Swedish

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and

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Life and career

Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the

Österlen Österlen () ( da, Østerlen) is a region in the southeast of the Swedish province of Scania (Skåne). Historically, the region was shared between the counties of Kristianstad and Malmöhus for a small part in the southwest, until Skåne County w ...

region of south Sweden. Today she lives in

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. Already as a five-year old she made her own comics, but stopped, until she took up drawing comics at the age of 23. Her flatmate made her interested in comic

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s then. With ''Rikedomen'', she published her first own fanzine. Her breakthrough as a comic artist followed with her first album ''Hundra procent fett'' ("One hundred percent fat"), which was published in 2005. She regularly publishes in the comic magazine ''

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'' in various magazines and newspapers such as ''

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'', ''Dagens Arbete'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Ordfront Magasin''. She designed the cover for the 2013 album ''

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'' by the band The Knife. She also made a comic strip for the band's website, which depicted income inequality in a satirical manner. Several of her books have been translated into French. ''Kunskapens frukt'' about the taboo of

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and the

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in society has also been translated into Dutch, Danish, German, Finnish, English, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Slovene and Ukrainian. She studied political science. Her comics are mostly about sociopolitical issues from a feminist and

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perspective. They are satirical essay about power and injustices. Since 2005, she has been working for the youth radio station

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. She was involved in the satirical programs '' Tankesmedjan'' and '' Pang Prego''. Together with the author Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli, she runs the podcast ''En varg söker sin pod'' for the newspaper ''

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''. In the SVT program ''Liv och Horace i Europa'', which was broadcast in spring 2016, she travelled through Europe together with

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and discussed the lives of various authors.

Awards

Adamson Award Adamson Awards is a Swedish award awarded to notable cartoonists, named after the famous Swedish comic strip "Adamson" ( Silent Sam). They have been presented by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA) since 1965. There have been years in that t ...

2012 * EWK Award 2013 *Kolla! 2020

Works

* ''Hundra procent fett''. Ordfront/Galago 2005. * ''Drift''. Kolik förlag 2007 (together with Jan Bielecki). * ''Einsteins fru''. Ordfront/Galago 2008. * ''Prins Charles Känsla''. Ordfront/Galago 2010. * ''Ja till Liv!''. Ordfront/Galago 2011. * ''Månadens moderat Kalender 2013''. Ordfront Förlag 2013. * ''Kunskapens frukt''. Ordfront/Galago 2014. (Engl. transl. ''

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'', Virago Press 2018.) * ''Kära Liv och Caroline''. Natur & Kultur 2015 (together with Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli). * ''Uppgång & Fall''. Ordfront/Galago 2016. * ''Den rödaste rosen slår ut''. Ordfront/Galago 2019. * ''Inne i spegelsalen''. Norstedts 2021.

References

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