Culture

´The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo´ awarded again

Culture | 2011-01-16 | 4 comments

The Swedish film "The Girl with the Dragon tattoo" got a reward as best foreign movie when the Critics choice award was held in Los Angeles.

Jussi Björling would have turned 100 today

Culture | 2011-02-02 | 3 comments

Warship Vasa to be restored

Culture | 2011-03-14 | 1 comment

The Warship Vasa, which can be seen at the Vasa...

Bypass threatens world heritage?

Culture | 2011-03-28

Drottningholm castle from the 17th century is one of fourteen Swedish objects on Unesco´s list of world heritage. Some people are now worried it will be damaged by the Stockholm bypass road that willl...

Copyright may make mobiles more expensive

Culture | 2011-03-31

SEK 100 more for a mobile phone. This could become a a reality if the private copying levy will include mobile phones, something that the organisation...

Astrid Lindgren and Dag Hammarskiöld will rest in your wallet

Culture | 2011-04-06 | 3 comments

Contemporary ambivalence about sex in art

Culture | 2011-04-12 | 1 comment

The Nationalmuseum´s exhibition on how sexuality, virtue, and sin have been depicted in art over the last 500 years is worth seeing,...

Sweden returns Māori skeletons to New Zealand

Culture | 2011-04-29 | 1 comment

For more than 130 years, the remains of three Maori people have been packed in boxes in Lund, south Sweden. Today, they were handed over to a delagation representing the Maori population and New Zealand.

Swedish King turns 65

Culture | 2011-04-30

Popular children´s show host charged for drug offenses

Culture | 2011-05-07 | 1 comment

Eric Saade to Eurovision final

Culture | 2011-05-13 | 3 comments

Sweden third in Eurovision Song Contest

Culture | 2011-05-15

Queen Silvia will examine her father´s past

Culture | 2011-05-15

Church of Sweden will investigate sexual abuse

Culture | 2011-05-23

“Ingmar Bergman was not biological son of his mother”

Culture | 2011-05-26 | 1 comment

New facts in the mystery of Ingmar Bergman

Culture | 2011-06-05 | 1 comment

The theory which claims that Ingmar Bergman was not the biological son of his mother is false. This according to genealogists.

June 6 - The Swedish National Day

Culture | 2011-06-06

A stand-up show about nothing

Culture | 2011-06-07

Jerry Seinfeld stand-up show in Globen, Stockholm....

False Mankell on Facebook

Culture | 2011-06-08

Swedish dialects becoming fewer

Culture | 2011-07-14

The country´s traditional dialects equalise as the Swedes move and commute more between different regions and towns. Instead, regional "greater dialects" take...

Wreck found outside Gotland - might be from the 14th century

Culture | 2011-07-15

Does it contain treasures from Waldemar Atterdag?

Stolen atlas from 1597 found in New York

Culture | 2011-07-18

Around fifty book were stolen from Royal Library between 1995 and 2004

Nordic Solidarity with Norway

Culture | 2011-07-25 | 3 comments

For one minute the Nordic countries stood still. Today at noon, the victims of the terror deed in Norway was honored with a minute´s silence.

Swedish singer one of Breivik´s idols

Culture | 2011-08-07 | 7 comments

"She is, to my knowledge, the best and most talented patriotic musician in the English-speaking world."

Cultural-conservative festival cancelled

Culture | 2011-08-10

Too low interest

Monday meetings supported independence for the Baltic states

Culture | 2011-08-16

Seventy-nine meetings were held in 1990 and 1991. Yesterday the 80th meeting was held.

Sensational wreck found in the Baltic Sea

Culture | 2011-08-19 | 1 comment

Nobel Chemistry prize to Israeli

Culture | 2011-10-05 | 2 comments

"For the discovery of quasicrystals".

Tranströmer receives the Nobel Prize in Literature

Culture | 2011-10-06 | 1 comment

The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Tomas Transtromer. Spontaneous applause broke out when the Swedish Academy´s Permanent Secretary Peter Englund read out the name.

Nobel Peace Prize to three women

Culture | 2011-10-07

"For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work."

Ethiopia does not want Swedish journalists in sensitive trial

Culture | 2011-10-10 | 42 comments

Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia accused of terrorism.

Ethiopian trial against Swedish journalists starts tomorrow

Culture | 2011-10-17 | 3 comments

Embassy personnel: "They are in good shape".

Rumors of Ingmar Bergman were false

Culture | 2011-10-21 | 1 comment

The claim that the Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman was not the biological child of his parents is wrong. A mistake was made during the DNA-test where the DNA from a lab-technician was mixed with...

Dispute about the political right and universal suffrage

Culture | 2011-10-25

What was the Moderates´ position 90 years ago?

Rihanna concert cancelled...

Culture | 2011-11-02 | 1 comment

...for the second time in a few days.

Famous actress Sickan Carlsson passed away

Culture | 2011-11-02

Died in Stockholm at the age of 96

Muslim communion may collect fees through taxes

Culture | 2011-11-04

Bosnian Muslim communion first Muslim community in Sweden to get this right.

Kungsgatan 100 years

Culture | 2011-11-24 | 1 comment

One of the most famous streets in Stockholm.

No violence any more on king´s death day

Culture | 2011-11-30

Karl XII´s (Charles XII) deathday used to be characterised by clashes between right wing nationalists and left wing counter demonstrators.

New Nobel centre to be built

Culture | 2011-12-02

Will be placed in the centre of Stockholm.

Terror-accused Swedish journalists had their say

Culture | 2011-12-06 | 5 comments

Today, it was time for the two terror accused Swedish journalists in Ethiopia to present their testimony before the trial in Addis Abeba. Each of the them presented their reasons for doing the...

Wrong persons found in King´s tomb

Culture | 2011-12-09 | 2 comments

The person inside the tomb lived 200 years after the presumed King.

Unusual debate: Does Lucia have to be a female?

Culture | 2011-12-12

School stopped elected Lucia because he was not a she.

Amanda won Swedish Idol 2011

Culture | 2011-12-12

Seventeen year old Amanda Fondell won Swedish Idol 2011.

Striptease photo of the King manipulated

Culture | 2011-12-16

Today the news tabloid Expressen published the picture which is supposed to reveal the King in a striptease club. Expressen had different experts to analyse the picture and they raise the question...

Benny Andersson wants his picture to be taken down at Arlanda

Culture | 2011-12-19 | 2 comments

The former ABBA star upset about plans for Slussen.

11 years in prison for Swedish journalists in Ethiopia

Culture | 2011-12-27 | 3 comments

Foreign Ministry: "We continue our efforts on all levels and in different tracks in order to contribute to their release"

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