Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman's books are mostly literary fiction, among them A Burnt Child, a coming-of-age novel about a young man named Bengt in a Stockholm working-class neighborhood, grappling with guilt and silence after his mother's death. Island of the Doomed and The Snake, which appears in the Quartet Encounters series, are also novels. German Autumn is a work of nonfiction history.