Anyuru, Johannes
Entry updated 15 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1979- ) Swedish poet, playwright, journalist and author who is of sf interest for De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar (2017; trans Saski Vogel as They Will Drown in their Mothers' Tears 2019), set in a Near Future Dystopian Sweden where immigrants are treated as non-persons unless they contract themselves to the state. Ixelles (2022; trans Nicholas Smalley 2025), whose protagonist, herself an internal exile through a family past involving migration and murder, serves her Brussels firm as a creator of Media Landscape surrounds for aspiring professionals. In this very Near Future world, those who can afford the fee display themselves in Avatar guise. Figures from the past, Doppelganger-like, animate the psychic vacancy of the new world. [JC]
Johannes Anyuru
born Borås, Sweden: 23 March 1979
works (highly selected)
- De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar (Stockholm, Sweden: Norstedts, 2017) [hb/]
- They Will Drown in their Mothers' Tears (San Francisco, California: Two Lines Press, 2019) [trans by Saskia Vogel of the above: hb/Jasper James]
- Ixelles (Stockholm, Sweden: Norstedts, 2022) [hb/]
- Ixelles (San Francisco, California: Two Lines Press, 2025) [trans by Nicholas Smalley of the above: pb/]
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