{{Short description|Swedish playwright in New Zealand and Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2021}} '''Ninna Tersman''' is a Swedish playwright, dramaturg and translator. She started playwrighting in 2001, and has written more than twenty plays for adults and for younger audiences. Her 2008 play, ''Fucking Parasites'', won the Critic's Prize for Best Production of the Year, and the Adam NZ Play Award.
== Work == Tersman has written more than twenty plays, and writes for both adult and young audiences.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Ninna Tersman|url=https://www.currency.com.au/authors/ninna-tersman/|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Currency Press|language=en-US|archive-date=4 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804025718/https://www.currency.com.au/authors/ninna-tersman/|url-status=live}}</ref> She also translates plays from Swedish to English.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Parasites|url=https://www.currency.com.au/books/drama/parasites/|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Currency Press|language=en-US|archive-date=4 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804030749/https://www.currency.com.au/books/drama/parasites/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, she dramatised the 1976 novel ''Maken'' by Gun-Britt Sundström, about the relationship between two university students.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-09-19 |title=Kultboken Maken för första gången på teaterscenen |url=https://news.cision.com/se/riksteatern/r/kultboken-maken-for-forsta-gangen-pa-teaterscenen,c2348867 |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=News Powered by Cision |language=sv}}</ref> Tersman has worked as a literary manager and dramaturg at the National Swedish Touring Theatre in Sweden. She has lived in Auckland, Sydney and Stockholm.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ninna Tersman |url=https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/person?docid=person_tersmanNinna |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=www.dramaonlinelibrary.com |language=en}}</ref>
Tersman's works have been performed by the National Swedish Touring Theatre (Riksteatern), Uppsala City Theatre, Norrbottensteatern, Regionteater Väst, Ung Scen Öst, Västerbottensteatern and by several independent productions. Recurring themes in Terman's works include "injustice, power relations and people's prejudices".<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Ninna Tersman |url=https://colombine.se/forfattaren/ninna-tersman/ |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=Colombine Teaterförlag |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-02 |title=Örebro Kulturskolas fördjupningslinje Teater ger - urpremiär av Ninna Tersmans "Kollaps" |url=https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/orebro_kommun/pressreleases/oerebro-kulturskolas-foerdjupningslinje-teater-ger-urpremiaer-av-ninna-tersmans-kollaps-2434889 |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=Mynewsdesk |language=sv}}</ref>
== Awards == In 2008, Tersman's play, ''Fucking Parasites'', won the inaugural Adam NZ Play Award, an award conferred by Playmarket for new plays. The play, about two teenagers in an asylum seeker processing centre, was workshopped at the Pacific Playhouse in London, directed by Lorae Parry with script advisor Tanika Gupta.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Opportunities|url=https://www.playmarket.org.nz/opportunities/|access-date=2021-08-04|website=www.playmarket.org.nz|language=en-US|archive-date=10 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810032549/https://www.playmarket.org.nz/opportunities/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ninna Tersman|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsT/tersman-ninna.php|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-04|website=The Playwrights Database|archive-date=4 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804025949/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsT/tersman-ninna.php}}</ref> The play was then published as ''Parasites'' by Currency Press in Australia in 2017.<ref name=":2" />
In 2012 Tersman won the Critic's Prize for Best Production of the Year for the play ''When Winter Stars Shine Down on Us.''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Ninna Tersman|url=https://apt.org.au/playwright/CP-an109|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Australian Plays Transform|language=en|archive-date=4 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804024748/https://apt.org.au/playwright/CP-an109}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}}
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