A government initiative to create a Swedish “cultural canon” concerned many in the country’s cultural world. The final list has sparked debate over the choices.

‘Shared map’ of Swedish culture that ignores everything since 1975 is ‘nationalist education project’, argue critics

A government initiative to create a Swedish “cultural canon” concerned many in the country’s cultural world. The final list has sparked debate over the choices.

We should always be suspicious when states try to define a national culture – especially when the arts are in crisis, says writer Gabriel V Rindborg