English-Swedish translations for literature

• litteratur en
  Det är ju på det hela taget mycket svårt att producera god litteratur.It is after all very difficult to produce good literature.
  Det handlar om vår europeiska litteratur, vår kultur och vår identitet.It is a question of our European literature, our culture, and our identity.
  Det får vara nog med tomma ord, nog med påståenden, nog med analyser och nog med litteratur...Enough of words, enough of statements, enough of analysis, enough of literature...
• facklitteratur
  Mina damer och herrar! Artiklar som nyligen publicerats i medicinsk facklitteratur pekar på ett direkt samband mellan hormonella preventivmedel och bröstcancer.Ladies and gentlemen, articles recently published in professional medical literature point to a direct link between hormonal contraception and breast cancer.
  Har du någon favoritförfattare inom den matematiska facklitteraturen?

Definition of literature

• The body of all written works
• All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject
• Written fiction of a high standard

Examples

• However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008

Related words

• antiliterature
• paraliterature
• literature review
• literature search
• literature prize
• literature scholar
• epic literature
• comparative literature
• nonfictional literature nonfiction