The Surrealist Group in Stockholm

The group describes itself as being founded in 1986, on Midsummer's Eve, close to a waterfall called Ristafallet in Hålland in Jämtland, in central Sweden.

In an article from 2001, Lasse Söderberg (a Swedish writer belonging to an older generation) describes them, from an encounter in 1988 as "a few serious-looking young men", headquartered as the "Surrealist research bureau" in an antiquarian bookstore close to Strindberg's "Blue tower" (his famous last residence on the street Drottninggatan on Norrmalm).

In Söderberg's view the content of the journal was of mixed quality, but he particularly appreciated the speculative writings of Johannes Bergmark and Carl-Michael Edenborg (born 1967) on subjects like erotica, money, alchemy, and music.

Another of the members of the group around Stora saltet (according to Anneli Jordahl in DN 16 February 2001) was the novelist Maja Lundgren (born 1965), whose novel Pompeji (Bonniers, 2001) has been translated into several languages and (in 2005) nominated for the Italian prize Premio Bancarella.

Forshage is a naturalist, as of 2005 working on a dissertation in entomology at Uppsala University, whose poetry in Angående näktergalarna man fann på glaciärisen (Lund: Ellerströms 1998), written in the surrealist tradition of automatic writing, takes its point of departure in various ornithological or geologic observations made at visits to the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.