Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Sunday, 22 June 2014

My cucumber mum

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A long time ago, in my pre-previous life, I had a phone call from the Chairman of the Swedish Writers' Union, who was a friend. “We h...

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Friday, 30 May 2014

Undergraduate memories, part 3

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Read Part 1 and Part 2 . The old Soviet Union was a country where everything was prohibited and anything was possible. There was a...

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Thursday, 29 May 2014

Undergraduate memories, part 2

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Read the beginning of the story of wrong choices . I knew from the first day that I had made a wrong choice, that it was wrong edu...

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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Undergraduate memories

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These days, it's forty years since I got my first degree. I am not particularly proud of this part of my professional career, and I don...

Saturday, 10 May 2014

More fun with indexing

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The index has gone to the publisher and come back as a concordance. This is a new process for me, and it looked clever and helpful – u...

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Friday, 25 April 2014

Joys of indexing

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I know you won't believe me, but I truly enjoy compiling an index for my books. Most people I know hate it and will pay someone to...

Saturday, 19 April 2014

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in memoriam

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There has been a lot written about the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez these days, and I cannot add much except one detail that made a deep ...

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