nobel prize

Helga Müller received the Nobel Price in Litterature this week. Congratulations goes to the Rumanian German authorin, that, in swedish Television, explained that she often work in a kind of maical way and for long times not at all. Suppose that is an ordinary way to distribuate working time and efforts for artists.
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Right now I’m reading an old book, The Kiss, written by Ulf Lundell the old Swedish rocker and multitalanted living legend. Bought the autobiography of Richard Branson the founder of Virgin media conglomerat. Also found the book Låt den rätta komma in by Ajvide Lindqvist.
There was a tweetup at friday night held at Underbara bar in Södermalm, Stockholm supported by Piratförlaget, the publisher of some of Jan Guillos books.

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.

Swedish Destinies and Advetures

”Swedish Destinies” is an anthology from famous August Strindberg, a book with the ambitious subtitle ”Masterpieces of Strindberg: Stories from all Eras” Strindberg lived in Stockholm and experienced that he was much criticized and overlooked and then moved on to Paris. He was married three times, and had some hard times with his women. He wrote the essay ”Womens’ inferior under the Man” (1895) in Paris.

One story is told about the union of led founders in medieval Stockholm. One of it’s ”gesäll” members, a smart oddball called Bosse, had invented a new method of mixing metals and making led and also a new design of a led pitcher for wine, an artifact much better than the traditional product. This results that the masters of the union got scared and put a ban on his invention and Bosse in jail. The hard and nasty german traderunion from the Hanseic city of Lübeck, traders who was located in Stockholm, stealed the invention and started to found this new kind of led piece and sold it to the people of Stockholm. So the lesson learned was that the narrow minded trade union got swindled.

Swedens most expensive painting ever, the painting “Alpine Landscape” by August Strindberg. MUSD 4 was the prize at Sotherbys in London (source: disajn.se)

Visit the web sites for the Strindberg Museeum · Strindberg and Helium Flashstories · Strindberg texts at Project Runeberg at Linkoping University · Detailed article about Strindberg in the Encyclopedea Nordisk Familjebok

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Jens Lapidus debutbok från 2006 har nu kommit som Månpocket. Den ligger på plats två i pocketlistan. Bokförsäljningen har ökat under den regniga sommaren. Jens som jobbar på juristbyrå har skrivit en bok om brott. Ett antal personer i Stockholms olika miljöer hamnar i en kriminell kontext med växande drogaffärer. En kille från landsorten som umågås i stureplanskretsar, en chilenare som rymt från fängelse, kriminella serbgäng etc.
Om du är student och vill låna boken kan du kolla var den finns och om den är inne via Libris.

Summary in English. The writer Jens Lapidus is a lawer and this is his debut book on crime. The main character is a dude from the northen part of Sweden, comming to Stockholm to study at the university and working as a taxi driver. He starts to sell drugs to finance his expencive living with the jet set at Stureplan. He get involved in escalating criminal transaction and dreaming of becomming filthy rich fast.