LIGAN – THE PIONEERS – A SISTERHOOD OF CHANGE
SMART, BRAVE AND IRRESISTIBLE. A group of women in Stockholm decide to challenge male domination. They move between hectic newspaper offices, royal dinners and war zones. This is the beginning of their pioneering exploits and a dizzying journey through 20th century Sweden. It is a story about lifelong friendships, about carrying each other through sickness, infidelity, forbidden love and abuse.
AFTER THE AUGUST PRIZE-winning Life in Every Breath, Fatima Bremmer is back with a gripping collective biography of a radical group of friends who paved the way for radical change in society.
THIS IS THE story of a group of women who changed history forever. They called themselves: The League – Blood Sisters of the Klara Quarter and they were invincible.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Forum, Sweden 2025
RIGHTS SOLD TO
Sweden, Forum
REVIEWS
“a rare feat of combined narrative delight and historical accuracy.”
– Expressen, Sweden
“What Fatima Bremmer does, in this doctoral thesis turned collective biography, is to breathe life into their black-and-white studio portraits as well and pave the way for a new historiography in which more feminist leading figures can be given their rightful place.”
– SvD, Sweden
“Bremmer writes vividly about the Klara of that time, the bohemian newspaper quarter that never slept.”
– Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
“Fatima Bremmer, who won the August Prize 2017 for her biography Life in Every Breath about Ester Blenda Nordström, has done it again. The Pioneers is a poignant and emotional book about these colourful personalities moving in the special time of social change that characterised Sweden.”
– BTJ, Sweden
BOOKS
Non Fiction
