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, 28 February 2016

When I met Olof Palme

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Everybody in Sweden today shares their memories of Olof Palme, the Swedish Prime Minister who was assassinated thirty years ago. A bit simil...

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Monday, 15 February 2016

How to recycle a hero

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This is a column I wrote for a Swedish daily in February 2007, when the world lived in anticipation of the final volume of the Harry Potter ...

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Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Book challenge 2015

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Since I love challenges (including all those silly Travel challenges on Facebook) I could not resist this list on my daughter's blog. ...

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Saturday, 15 August 2015

Conference nostalgia, part 2

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Read the beginning of this story here . I almost didn't go to the 1993 IRSCL conference in Geelong, Australia, because I had just retu...

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Friday, 14 August 2015

Conference nostalgia

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Just returned from Worcester and the biennial conference of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL), I cann...

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Sunday, 26 July 2015

My contribution to the Harper Lee controversy

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I am usually sceptical of sequels, prequels, midquels and sidequels, although they can occasionally be worth reading for various reasons....

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Saturday, 14 March 2015

Press Replay

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This is what I wrote two years ago . There is very little I can add. I am tremendously privileged to have a research leave every seventh ter...

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