Babel
Next episode: S46E7 “TBA” airs today, on SVT Play
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RunningBabel is your reading lamp in life. Jessika Gedin meets the most read and interesting authors right now and the author panel talks life and reading.
Babel Season 46 at a glance
- Episodes announced
- 13 (6 aired)
- Premiere
- Thu, Sep 3, 2026
- Last announced episode
- Thu, Dec 17, 2026
- Release pattern
- Episodes release on varying dates
- Network
- SVT Play
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| Season 4613 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E1 | Tone Schunnesson med Ultravåld | Aired | — | |
| E2 | PC Jersild och sliding doors-romaner | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Gisèle Pelicot om övergrepp och skammen som måste byta sida | Aired | — | |
| E4 | TBA | Aired | — | |
| E5 | TBA | Aired | — | |
| E6 | TBA | Previous | — | |
| E7 | TBA | Next Episode | — | |
| E8 | TBA | Upcoming | — | |
| E9 | TBA | Upcoming | — | |
| E10 | TBA | Upcoming | — | |
| E11 | TBA | Upcoming | — | |
| E12 | TBA | Upcoming | — | |
| E13 | TBA | Upcoming | — | |
| Season 454 | ||||
| E1 | Jan Guillou | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Lena Andersson | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Åsne Seierstad | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Suzanne Brøgger | Aired | — | |
| Season 4415 | ||||
| E1 | Amanda Romare följer upp succéromanen | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Åsne Seierstad och det ryska hotet | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Boktips för förlåtelse och försoning | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Nobelpristippad författare och roadmovielitteratur | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Inger Edelfeldt om skamlig fåfänga & panelen om svåra böcker | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Svindlande höjder och Ingela Strandberg | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Carina Rydberg och de bästa fackböckerna | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Édouard Louis och böckerna som väcker vrede | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Jonas Karlsson synar den mänskliga arten | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Påskekrim! Jens Lapidus i författarpanelen | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Siri Hustvedt om sorgen efter Paul Auster | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Tomas Bannerhed och biblioterapi | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Antony Beevor om Ryssland och Rasputin | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Anne Holt och bokcirkel om Maken av Gun-Britt Sundström | Aired | — | |
| E15 | David Lagercrantz och halvtid för Babels läsutmaning | Aired | — | |
| Season 4313 | ||||
| E1 | Klas Östergren och tips för att starta bästa bokcirkeln | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Maria Maunsbach och bokcirkel om Jessika Gedins favoritroman | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Alex Schulman intervju och Amanda Romare i författarpanelen | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Lydia Sandgren och bokhistoriens bästa förstasida | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Nina Wähä och böckerna som ger hopp om ålderdomen | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Korrespondenten Cecilia Uddén och låtskrivaren Mikael Wiehe | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Bea Uusma om sitt livs passion och mysterium - Vitön | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Martin Luuk och de bästa bokserierna | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Arundhati Roy och litteraturens bästa mammaskildringar | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Augustprisnominerat seriealbum och biblioterapi | Aired | — | |
| E11 | David Sedaris och Kafkas Förvandlingen | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Mikael Yvesand och bokcirkel om Stolthet och fördom | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Monika Fagerholm och secret santa | Aired | — | |
| Season 424 | ||||
| E1 | Lars Lerin och Junior | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Martina Haag | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Sanna Samuelsson och Hanna Johansson | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Mats Strandberg | Aired | — | |
| Season 4113 | ||||
| E1 | Lukas Moodyssons livsråd | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Great Gatsby – en av världens bästa romaner? | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Norges största författarpar | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Därför älskar vi Mumin | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Sex, drakar och boksuccé – möt Rebecca Yarros | Aired | — | |
| E6 | David Lagercrantz och hundra år av magisk realism | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Helle Helle och bokcirkel om Det mest förbjudna | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Lena Andersson och färska boktips | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Håkan Nesser och moderna klassiker | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Robert Harris och livsförändrande böcker | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Farlig poesi och fasansfull Förintelseskildring | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Philip Pullman och bokcirkel om kultförklarad klassiker | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Vigdis Hjorth | Aired | — | |
| Season 4012 | ||||
| E1 | Bokmässan i Göteborg | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Liv Strömquist om samtidens fixering vid lycka | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Nobelpriset i litteratur | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Yuval Noah Harari, Mian Lodalen och Melissa Horn | Aired | — | |
| E5 | John Cooper Clarke, Nina Bouraoui och Johnossi | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli, Abraham Verghese | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jan Guillou, Brenda Navarro | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Anne Applebaum och Marie-Louise Ekman | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Sven-Olov Karlsson, Mattias Timander | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Daniel Sjölin, Kaliane Bradley, Ruth Kvarnström-Jones | Aired | — | |
| E11 | David Nicholls, Karolina Ramqvist | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Jens Lapidus, Bruno K. Öijer och Julia Quinn | Aired | — | |
| Season 399 | ||||
| E1 | Stefan Lindberg, Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Maia Hirasawa | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Avsnitt 2 | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Avsnitt 3 | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Avsnitt 4 | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Avsnitt 5 | Aired | — | |
| E6 | John Ajvide Lindqvist, Mirja Unge, Winona Oak | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Salman Rushdie, Niklas Rådström, vårpoesi | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Arundhati Roy, Carl-Johan Vallgren, David Norlin | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Malin Ullgren, Andrew McMillan, Adam Taal | Aired | — | |
| Season 3812 | ||||
| E1 | Hanne-Vibeke Holst, Andrev Walden, Sarah Klang | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Kjell Westö, Amanda Svensson, Darin | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Vigdis Hjorth, Ocean Vuong, Willy Vlautin | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Mikael Niemi, Lena Andersson, Jonas Hassen Khemiri | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Bokmässespecial | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Årets nobelpristagare Jon Fosse | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Alex Ahndoril, Margaret Atwood, Sara Lidman | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Agneta Pleijel, Anahita Ghazinezam, Vilma Flood | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Bret Easton Ellis, Maria Stepanova, Jelena Kostiutjenko | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Katarina Wennstam, Hernan Diaz, Maria Sonia Cristoff | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Annika Norlin, Olga Ravn, Ingrid Carlberg | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Sigge Eklund, Patti Smith, Jackie Mere | Aired | — | |
| Season 379 | ||||
| E1 | Åsne Seierstad, Hans Gunnarsson, Dina ögon | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Maja Lunde, Rosa Liksom, Parham | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Jamaica Kincaid, Ian McEwan | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Mohsin Hamid, Aslı Erdoğan, Gösta Larsson | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Karl Ove Knausgård, Anna Fock, Simon Superti | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Nora Ikstena, Fríða Ísberg, Jelassi | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Maggie O’Farrell, Jennifer Clement, Nao Mali | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Hanna Nordenhök, Mikael Yvesand, Anna Järvinen | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Laurie Halse Anderson, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Nina Persson | Aired | — | |
| Season 3613 | ||||
| E1 | Carina Rydberg, Torbjörn Flygt och Sabina Ddumba | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Gerda Antti, Johannes Anyuru, Kjell och Mårten Westö | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Marian Keyes, Patrik Svensson och Anna Axfors | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Från Bokmässan i Göteborg | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Alex Schulman, Jesper Wung-Sung och Annie Ernaux | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Nobelspecial: Annie Ernaux | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Lea Ypi, Sara Parkman och Aris Fioretos | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Joakim Pirinen, Nina Hemmingsson och Dungen | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Linn Ullmann, Pip Williams, Péter Nádas | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Elizabeth George, Alexandre Antonelli och Paula Jivén | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Anneli Jordahl, Andrea Lundgren, Cleo | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Lina Wolff, Maaza Mengiste, Little Dragon | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Karin Smirnoff, Édouard Louis, Janice | Aired | — | |
| Season 323 | ||||
| E1 | Jan Guillou, Lydia Sandgren, Mikael Niemi, Loney Dear | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Agneta Pleijel, Stephan Mendel-Enk, Eva Dahlgren | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Alex Schulman, Suad Ali, Mattias Alkberg, Björn Ranelid | Aired | — | |
| Season 319 | ||||
| E1 | Jeanette Winterson, Mats Strandberg, Jenny Jägerfeld | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Sjòn, Géraldine Schwarz, Kalle Moraeus, Arazo Arif | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Hanne Vibeke Holst, Joyce Carol Oates, Bodil Malmsten | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Elis Monteverde Burrau, Lina Gustafsson, Stina Wirsén | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Stefan Lindberg, Elin Anna Labba, Wilderäng, Magnus Betnér | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Anne Swärd, Trygve Skaug, Sara Granér, Per Sinding-Larsen | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Christian Unge, Niklas Natt och Dag, Mikael Wiehe | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Ulrika Knutson, Josefine Adolfsson, Rickard Söderberg | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Karin Smirnoff, Bengt Ohlsson, Gizem Erdogan | Aired | — | |
| Season 3013 | ||||
| E1 | Marian Keyes, David Lagercrantz, Britta Persson | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Beate Grimsrud, Emilie Pine, Suzanne Osten | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Linda Boström Knausgård, Liv Strömquist, Sarah Klang and others | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Monika Fagerholm, Patrik Svensson, Anne Ramberg | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Athena Farrokhzad, Magnus Västerbro, Peter Gerhardsson | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Rachel Cusk, Nicole Krauss, Markus Zusak | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jenny Colgan, Steve Sem Sandberg, Rojda Sekersöz, Janice | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Nobel special | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Guy Gunaratne, Jonas Bonnier, Gustaf Norén | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Lisa Halliday, Lisa Taddeo, Sofia Jannok m.fl. | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Erlend Loe, Cecelia Watson, Annelie Pompe | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Anne Holt, Sara Villius, Carl Johan De Geer | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Peter Høeg, Matilda Gustavsson, Lasse Åberg | Aired | — | |
| Season 299 | ||||
| E1 | Ernst Brunner, Johanna Frid and Aase Berg | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Julie Lindahl and Johan Jönson | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Sara Danius, Nina Wähä and Henrik Bromander | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Umeå literature festival | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Amanda Svensson, Sasha Salzmann | Aired | — | |
| E6 | David Sedaris and Lasse Berg | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Deborah Levy and Björn af Kleen | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Chigozie Obioma and Kristen Roupenian | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Michael Ondaatje and Bart Moeyaert | Aired | — | |
| Season 2812 | ||||
| E1 | Jonas Gardell, Anthony Beevor and Hédi Fried | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Jonas Hassen Khemiri and Vigdis Hjort | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Avsnitt 3 | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Sara Stridsberg, Fredrik Ekelund and Familjen | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Marie Darrieussecq and Marie-Louise Ekman | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bokmässan i Göteborg | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Sheila Heti, Wole Soyinka and Marina Benjamin | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Maciej Zaremba | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Hanne Vibeke Holst and Helena von Zweigbergk | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Tessa Hadley and Dorte Nors | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Niklas Natt och Dag, Alexandra Pascalidou and Simon Strauss | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Maria Aljochina, Alex Schulman and Loreen | Aired | — | |
| Season 2710 | ||||
| E1 | Tolstoj, idioter och svindlande höjder | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Anne Hope Jahren, Kerstin Strandberg, Nino Mick | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Robert Harris, Sarah Perry, Min stora sorg | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Rebelltjejer, Jenny Jägerfeldt, Athena Farrokzhad | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Agnes Lidbeck, Maja Lundgren o sanningen om svenska deckare | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Lena Andersson, Simon Stålenhag, Balsam Karam | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Sorg, separationer och dikt om Akademien | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Nesbö, Shakespeare och Linde | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Kris, katastrof och Krunegård | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Revolution, flickor och nuckor! | Aired | — | |
| Season 2611 | ||||
| E1 | Louisiana litteraturfestival | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Kjell Westö | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Mats Jonsson, Gunilla Bergström | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Litteraturfestivalen på Svalbard | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Sigrid Combüchen, Mikael Niemi, Veronica Maggio | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bokmässorna i Göteborg | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Nobelsändning | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Anna Schulze, Jack Hildén | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Ariel Levy, Kjell Johansson, Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Stockhoms litteraturfestival, Moshin Hamid | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Julian Barnes, Petina Gappah, Mikael Persbrandt, Carl-Johan Vallgren | Aired | — | |
| Season 2510 | ||||
| E1 | Johannes Anyuru, Theodor Kallifatides och Agnes Lidbeck | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Litteraturfestivalen i Umeå | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Tove Folkesson, Linus de Faire | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Stefan Spjut | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Edmund de Waal, Agneta Pleijel, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anna Hallberg | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Augustin Erba, Elsie Johansson, Elise Karlsson, Mariana Enriquez | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Sara Paborn, Philip Teir, Sara Danius, Per Hagman | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Maggie O'Farrell, Carsten Jensen, Sacha Batthyany | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Alain de Botton, Majgull Axelsson, Mats Strandberg | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Helsinki Lit | Aired | — | |
| Season 2412 | ||||
| E1 | Anne Enright, Edward St Aubyn, Mattias Alkberg, Claudio Magris | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Johanna Ekström, Linda Boström Knausgård, Tone Schunnesson | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Hans Gunnarsson, Lina Wolff, Stina Oscarsson | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Emma Cline, Steve Sem Sandberg, Rutu Modan, Carolina Frände | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Sofi Oksanen, Meg Wolitzer, Karen Armstrong, Eija Hetekivi Olsson | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Geir Gulliksen, Joakim Pirinen, Nachla Vargas Alaeb | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Leif GW Persson och Evert Bäckström är tillbaka! | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Årets Nobelpristagare Bob Dylan analyseras och diskuteras på längden och tvären | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Linn Ullmann, M. R. Carey, Hanya Yanagihara | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Jamaica Kincaid, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Hirom Ho | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Deon Meyer, LS Hilton, Åsne Seierstad | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Så kan man närläsa en porrnovell | Aired | — | |
| Season 2310 | ||||
| E1 | Ebba Witt-Brattström, Jenny Erpenbeck | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Stefan Lindberg, Lena Andersson, John Ajvide Lindqvist | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Niklas Rådström, Negar Naseh | Aired | — | |
| E4 | David Wiberg | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Athena Farrokhzad, Svetlana Cârstean, Erik Lundin, Stefan Larsson | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bill Clegg | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jeanette Winterson | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Horace Engdahl | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Roxane Gay | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Meg Rosoff | Aired | — | |
| Season 2212 | ||||
| E1 | Jonas Karlsson, Marie-Louise Ekman, Tom Malmquist | Aired | — | |
| E2 | David Lagercrantz, Kerstin Ekman | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Karl Ove Knausgård, Hassan Blasim | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Elizabeth Strout, Cilla Naumann, Johan Hilton | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Peter Høeg, Julie Otsuka, Jill Alexander Essbaum | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Ian McEwan, Guadalupe Nettel, Jonas Jonasson | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jens Lapidus, Katarina Frostenson | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Svetlana Aleksijevitj, Sara Danius | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Aris Fioretos, Moa Gammel, Carola Hansson | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Jonathan Franzen, Colm Toibin, Marie Ndiaye | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Susan Abulhawa, Karin Johannisson | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Lee Child, Dorthe Nors, Maja Hagerman | Aired | — | |
| Season 2112 | ||||
| E1 | Lionel Shriver, Sigge Eklund, Nadifa Mohamed | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Bodil Malmsten, Ruben Östlund, Yvonne Hirdman | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Agneta Pleijel, Vladimir Sorokin | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Denise Mina, Karolina Ramqvist | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Liv Strömquist, Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli, Assaf Gavron | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Susanna Alakoski, Sarah Waters | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jennifer Clement, Edouard Louis | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Peter Englund, Xiaolu Guo | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Martin Luuk, Olivia Bergdahl, Yvonne Leffler | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Roy Jacobsen, Tove Folkesson, Paula Hawkins | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Henning Mankell, Margie Orford, Helon Habila | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Håkan Nesser, Samantha Ellis | Aired | — | |
| Season 2012 | ||||
| E1 | John Ajvide Lindqvist, Annika Norlin | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Richard Ford, Kristina Sandberg, Liv Strömquist | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Klas Östergren, Sara Stridsberg, Steve Sem-Sandberg | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Karl Ove Knausgård, Tore Renberg | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Bokmässan: Sigrid Combüchen, Ida Bäckman, David Grossman | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Jan Guillou, Ken Follett, Sophie Hannah | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Patrick Modiano | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Simon Singh | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Lena Andersson, Edmund White, Aminatta Forna | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Jo Nesbø, Cees Nooteboom | Aired | — | |
| E11 | David Lagercrantz, Hanna Fahl | Aired | — | |
| E12 | David Nicholls, Hanne-Vibeke Holst | Aired | — | |
| Season 192 | ||||
| E1 | Suzanne Brøgger, Lisa Jewell | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Jung Chang, Etgar Keret, Ingela Lind | Aired | — | |
| Season 11 | ||||
| E1 | Avsnitt 1 | Aired | — | |
About Babel
Babel is your reading lamp in life. Jessika Gedin meets the most read and interesting authors right now and the author panel talks life and reading.
Babel FAQ
When is the next episode of Babel?
S46E7 "TBA" airs Thu, Nov 5, 2026 on SVT Play.
How many episodes are in Babel Season 46?
13 episodes of Season 46 have been announced so far, 6 of which have aired. Episodes release on varying dates.
When does Babel Season 46 end?
The last announced episode of Season 46 (S46E13) airs Thu, Dec 17, 2026. More episodes may still be added.
How do I add Babel to my calendar?
Tap "Subscribe in Calendar" on this page and pick Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Every Babel episode is added with its air date, and the calendar updates itself when dates change.
