The Swedish Humanities Federation's yearbook 2019, Professor Johan Stenström's "The Word and the Wine". The book is distributed to SHF's approximately 2300 members and is also sold in bookstores. Since ancient times, the use of wine has been a recurring motif in fiction. In Sweden, some authors such as Bellman or Strindberg stand out; in others, wine plays a lesser role but is nevertheless frequently used, sometimes as a sign of social status, often to describe festivities and important turning points in the plot: Almqvist, Runeberg, Bremer, Benedictsson, Lagerlöf, Söderberg. In French literature, wine is naturally a frequent feature. The ties between Britain and the wine-producing eastern parts of France have existed since the Middle Ages and have left their mark on English literature. In The Word and the Wine, Johan Stenström describes in 19 chapters how wine is portrayed in Western literature, from antiquity to the present day. Stenström has been Professor of Literature at Lund University since 2009.