A Whisper Heard in Babel
A whisper heard in Bable is my attempt at a translation of a poem by former Archbishop KG Hamma composed during the Gothenburg Book Fair.
Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
Capt. Gulliver’s Voyage to Borborygmus
Chapter headings from a previously unpublished story of the adventures of Gulliver’s Voyage to Borborygmus by Jonathan Swift. Or possibly not.
Birthday Blues
Birthday Blues: How I celebrated my 53rd birthday. Also about criminal behaviour in my family and about about the law of copyright.
Child, this day (Elin to her unborn child)
Child this day … One of the two narrative voices in Elin’s Story. This is my heroine writing a letter to her unborn child.
Right worshipful Husband (Elin’s letter to Thomas)
This is my heroine writing a letter to Thomas her husband. One of the two narrative voices in Elin’s Story, the novel I have been working on for 3 years.
My dearest mother (Elin to her mother)
The other narrative voice in Elin’s Story (workng title), the novel I have been working on for 3 years. This is my heroine writing a letter to her mother.
It’s hard
Humorous nonsense poem playing with various senses of “sod” and other words and phrases in which “sod” is an element.
The River Rippled (Elin’s Story begins)
The beginning of Elin’s Story (workng title), the novel I have been working on for 3 years.
Bad timing (1938)
Bad timing (1938) Poem retelling a family story about my father and his father. Dad ran away from home to enlist in the army just in time for World War Two.