Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture in Litterature at the Swedish Academy, Källargränd 4, 5:30 p.m. This event is a part of the Nobel Week. Press Conference regarding the Nobel Week at the Nobel Foundation, Sturegatan 14, 1:00 p.m.

Bodil Malmsten

The Author the several times book prize awarded Bodil Malmsten is, as far as I know not a relative to the guitar player Yngvie Malmsteen if you want to know. Bodil Malmsten was born in Norrland and moved down to Stockolm. For several years she lived in Vallingby, a place she describes and relates to in several pasages in the book i have studied, called My papers are still in a mess. She writes about: her living in France, life in Stockholm, authors like Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, social change in privatization, shopping malls, bus traveling in Wales, getting layed in Hagsatra suburb as teen, visiting the library in Vallingby that she claim has saved her life from using heavy drugs at lofts at Angermannagatan, the main street of Vallingby. She also writes on raketost (a special brand of cheese) and the love of oranges. And she claims that books are the great memory of the world. Malmsten is a blogger and runs her own publishing corporation, Finistere. 18 december she will draw her signature in her books at Akademibokhandeln Master Samulesgatan in Stockholm.

Bookday with the Professor

This Saturday 10 November I declare as Vix Book Day with the sub theme bike hikeing. I have studied the book Hiking in the Rocky Mountains from Lonely Planet Publishing corporation. What could be more relaxing than take a ride on your mountain bike in the nature with some packing on your back and sit down and rest reading a book drinking hot coffee or tea with a sandwich.

Prof. Leif GW Persson is working as a criminology professer at the Police Accademy of Stockholm and is also a famous thriller writer here in Sweden. He is visiting the local bookstore Klackenberg today signing his latest book. He has latele been in a controversy with a female criminal author Läckberg declaring that she write in style/manner of little girls horse books like "Min Häst" (My Horse).

Alexander Bard’s Netocrazy

Netocracy: The new power elite and life after capitalism, is available as an eBook distributed by eLib 2004. The book is written by Alexander Bard and Jan Soderqvist. The main author is the famous and awarded musician Alexander Bard from powerpop bands BWO, Vacuum and Army of Lovers. By the way Alexander and his friends are using laptops on their live performances as laptopartists. Now over to the eBook. Netocrazy describes life in a new class society in a post-capitalistic era. The national state is erodating and new unclear rules are valid. The ways people percepting and understanding the world and democrazy are changeing. A digital revolution is transforming society in a brutal way.

In order to make the right decisions enought relevant information is needed. Netocrazy is a concept developed by the editiors of Wire Magazine used instead of an emerging digital upper class. Power is based upon technology, networking etc. in a creative urban class. The antithesis and negational field of the dicotomy is the consumtariat.

The book is also available in paper format in english from Reuters, London. [trans. N. Smith]
Bard, A. (2004) Netocrazy Stockholm: Pocky/Tranan/eLib [eBook]

What is EU?

What is EU — and what could it be is a book written by Birger Möller on Santerus Publishing. Different themes are presented: what could new countries memberships from Bulgaria and Rumania in 2007 mean, trade conflicts with China, the discussions on a mebership from Turkey in the future. Moller has earlier worked as lecturer at Gothenburg School of Economics.

Nobel Prize in Litterature

English writer Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in Litterature 1:00 PM today in Stockholm, Sweden. She was born in Persia 1919 by brittish parents. Read more on her biograpy on her web
She lived in different of England’s collonies in Africa and she was first published when she was 19. Bibliography could be read here

Amberville

Tim Davys is the author of a new book published today Thuesday 2 October 2007 by Albert Bonnier Publishing Company. The book is the debut for the author writing under pseudonym. € 15,5 is the prize for the book 365 pages in soft binder. I was surprised by two men in black coats and hoods comming out from a van at the Goth Street, Sodermalm/Stockholm giving away an exemplar of the book to each person comming by. A smart marketing trick with a visual street team event directed by the publisher.