Liv Strömquist

Liv Strömquist
Liv Strömquist at the Gothenburg book fair in September 2013
Born3 February 1978 Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationComics artist, illustrator, radio personality Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • Axel Liffner scholarship (2011)
  • Gustaf Fröding scholarship (2011)
  • Adamson Awards (2012)
  • EWK award (2013)
  • Ankan (2012)
  • Region Skånes kulturpris (2013)
  • Sydsvenska Dagbladets kulturpris (2014)
  • Dagens Nyheter Culture Prize (2015)
  • Karl Gerhard-stipendiet (2016)
  • Lena Nyman Prize (2017)
  • Kolla! (2020)
  • Tage Danielsson Award (2020)
  • Malmö City Culture Award (2024) Edit this on Wikidata

Liv Strömquist (born February 3, 1978) is a Swedish comics artist and radio presenter.

Life and career

Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the Österlen region of south Sweden. Today she lives in Malmö. 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 fanzines then. With Rikedomen, she published her first own fanzine.[1][2][3]

Her breakthrough as a comic artist followed with her first album Hundra procent fett ("One hundred percent fat"), which was published in 2005.[4] She regularly publishes in the comic magazine Galago in various magazines and newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter, Dagens Arbete, Bang, Aftonbladet and Ordfront Magasin.[5][6] She designed the cover for the 2013 album Shaking the Habitual by the band The Knife. She also made a comic strip for the band's website, which depicted income inequality in a satirical manner.

International success

Most of her books have been translated into French and German. Fruit of Knowledge, (Kunskapens frukt) about the taboo of menstruation and the vulva in society has also been translated into Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Galician, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Strömquist studied sociology at Lund University and earned a degree in political science at Malmö University.[2] In 2016 Strömquist was awarded an honorary doctorate by Malmö University.[7] Her comics are mostly about sociopolitical issues from a feminist and left-wing perspective. They are satirical essay about power and injustices.[5][6][3]

Since 2005, she has been working for the youth radio station Sveriges Radio P3. 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 Expressen.[8] In the SVT program Liv och Horace i Europa, which was broadcast in spring 2016, she travelled through Europe together with Horace Engdahl and discussed the lives of various authors.[9]

Awards

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. (Eng. trans. Fruit of Knowledge, Fantagraphics Books 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. (Eng. trans. The reddest rose, Fantagraphics Books 2022.)
  • Inne i spegelsalen. Norstedts 2021.
  • Liv Strömquists astrologi. Norstedts 2022.
  • Pythian pratar. Norstedts 2024.

References

  1. ^ "Liv Strömquist - Grafikens Hus". shop.grafikenshus.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Liv Strömquist". Dagens Arbete (in Swedish). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Med blick för politisk satir". Tidningen Karriär. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Liv Strömquist - Lambiek Comiclopedia". lambiek.net. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Liv Strömquist". seriersant.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Liv Strömquist | Personer | bildobubbla.se". bildobubbla.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Liv Strömquist blir hedersdoktor". Lundagård (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  8. ^ "En varg söker sin pod". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Liv och Horace i Europa". SVT. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Liv Strömquist – mottagare av Kolla! i kategorin Effekt". kolla! 2020 (in Swedish). 23 November 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2021.