 The period that includes Swedish as it is spoken today is termed nusvenska ( lit . " Now @-@ Swedish " ) in linguistic terminology and started in the last decades of the 19th century . The period saw a democratization of the language with a less formal written form that came closer to the spoken one . The growth of a public schooling system also led to the evolution of so @-@ called boksvenska ( literally " book Swedish " ) , especially among the working classes , where spelling to some extent influenced pronunciation , particularly in official contexts . With the industrialization and urbanization of Sweden well under way by the last decades of the 19th century , a new breed of authors made their mark on Swedish literature . Many scholars , politicians and other public figures had a great influence on the new national language that was emerging , and among them were prolific authors like the poet Gustaf Fröding , Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf , and radical writer and playwright August Strindberg . 
