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, 6 August 2017

African diaries, part 2: sand dunes

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Read the first part of this travelogue here. The main, if not the only reason I had chosen this trip was the Okavango Delta. As always,...

Saturday, 5 August 2017

African diaries, part 1: Preamble

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I haven't blogged for more than a year – not because my life has been totally uneventful, rather the other way round, and I never foun...

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Taking a test on my own text

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A slightly weird experience. One of my two published short stories has been included in a textbook for Swedish as a second language...

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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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