The article examines the reception of Faïza Guène’s works in Sweden. The corpus is made up of reviews written by literary critics and published in the press between 2006 (the year Guène’s first novel was translated into Swedish) and 2016, as well as reviews written by bloggers and published on the Internet during the same period. The most important themes in this reception are examined, as are the literary references used in the articles. Since reviews of a translated work aim to introduce a foreign author to a new audience, it is interesting to examine the strategies of the reviewers: is Faïza Guène associated with a particular literary or social context? What arguments and references are used? What differences can be observed between reviews published in the printed press and those published in the blogosphere? The results show that the most common themes in the Swedish reception include the success of Kiffe kiffe demain in France, the humour in Guène’s texts, and the sociocultural settings of her novels. The reviewers often discuss the style, the dialogues, and the portraits of the main literary characters in the author’s novels—and there are mixed opinions regarding these aspects of her writing. The references made to other writers associate Guène’s work with literary genres such as migrant literature, young adult fiction and, to a lesser extent, proletarian literature. Bloggers’ opinions do not differ in any significant way from those expressed in the printed press, but the tone used in the blogosphere is sometimes more subjective than that of traditional literary reviews.