Atrium Publishing House

Atrium Förlag is a young independent publishing house founded in 2006. We are based in Umeå - the European Capital of Culture 2014 - in the north of Sweden, and our publishing house is one of few in Scandinavia with a combined interest in literature for children and young people, as well as the field of film and theatre. We publish high quality books, so far approximately 20 titles, including translations from various languages. Our aim is to issue about six titles a year and try to have a comprehensive backlist.

The focus on film and theatre - subjects often neglected on the Swedish book market - has resulted in published screenplays by filmmakers Andrei Tarkovsky and Lukas Moodysson as well as the winning short scripts from the Doris Film script competition, a dissertation on the films of Ingmar Bergman, plays by Alexander Pushkin, Tennessee Williams, Jean Cocteau, Hjalmar Bergman and a selection of Swedish classic female authors from the turn of the century (Victoria Benedictsson and Alfhild Agrell), most of them including thorough prefaces by renounced film, theatre and literature scholars.

In our list of previous publications of children's literature, one may find E.B. White's classic "The Trumpet of the Swan", several collections of Swedish literary fairytales as well as the semi-autobiographical children's book trilogy by Frida Åslund, one of Astrid Lindgren's predecessors. From 2010 we will also focus on contemporary authors. We have a close collaboration with libraries, and put a great emphasis on increasing the knowledge and understanding of children's literature, especially among those working with children and young people.

Would you like to know more about Atrium, or if you live outside of Sweden and want to buy any of our books, please send us an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

You are also welcome to express your viewpoints, ideas and suggestions concerning possible cooperations and publications - just send us an e-mail to let us know.