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Bodil Malmsten


Born
in Bjärme, Sweden
August 19, 1944

Died
February 05, 2016

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Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944 in Bjärme, Jämtland) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents.

The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France. It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block.

She was awarded a doctorate honoris causa ad gradum (honorary degree ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 7,864 ratings · 584 reviews · 51 distinct works • Similar authors
Det här är hjärtat
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Priset på vatten i Finistère
3.79 avg rating — 1,375 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions
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Den dagen kastanjerna slår ...
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Så gör jag: Konsten att skriva
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Hör bara hur ditt hjärta bu...
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Mitt första liv
3.74 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Det är fortfarande ingen or...
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Sista boken från Finistère
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Kom och hälsa på mig om tus...
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Och en månad går fortare nu...
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Hör bara hur ditt hjärta bu... Kom och hälsa på mig om tus... De från norr kommande leopa... Och en månad går fortare nu... Och ett skepp med sju segel... Loggböckerna: 2005-2013
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“Nothing must happen to you No, what am I saying Everything must happen to you And it must be wonderful.”
― Bodil Malmsten
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“In the same way that there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find your own among the billions that belong to other people, you have to be awake, you have to choose.”
― Bodil Malmsten, The Price of Water in Finistère
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“Förutsatt att du tror
säger prästen
kommer alltings hemskhet
att gå över i Jesu gemenskap och
ett evigt liv

Förutsatt att jag tror
kommer du och jag att förenas
i evighetens etagelägenhet

Men det tror jag inte

Min människa är död
Gud ljög”
― Bodil Malmsten, Det här är hjärtat
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