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.

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Madagascar diaries, part 4: Emotionally destabilising

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Read the previous posts: part one , two and three. From now on, I will skip the chronology, and rather than following the rollercoas...

Monday, 29 September 2014

Madagascar diaries, part 3: Tana

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Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this story. As I mentioned, I wanted an extra day on arrival because every now and then I get violently mot...

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Madagascar diaries, part 2

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Read the beginning of this story here . Maybe I hadn't done my homework properly after all, or maybe I remembered Staffan's a...

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Madagascar diaries

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It has now been over a month since I returned from my unforgettable trip to Madagascar. Unforgettable is an ambiguous word. Most often it...

Real literature

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As children's literature scholars, we often hear colleagues and friends say: “And when are you going to write about real literature?”...

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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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