on Monday evening, at a restaurant in the centre of Stockholm, presented the dagens nyheter’s cultural section, Björn Wiman year Kulturpristagare.
Johanna Peace novel is a book to fall in love, neither more nor less, ” he said. It is also a book that binds together Sweden, Denmark and Norway in an irresistible way.
and received the Eva Lange’s sculpture ”Little rain”.
Johanna Peace. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
On the question of what reactions to the book, which in large part is about the main character’s burning jealousy, provoked by the outside world, she replied:
” I have actually got some reactions. There are many jealous people out there …
Then, with a more serious tone, she gave an explanation as to how it came to pass that she wrote about such a taboo topic:
– the Advantage of being an unknown is precisely the lack of demands from outside, you have just only to requirements from the inside.
Image 1 of 2 dagens nyheter’s cultural section, Björn Wiman and Johanna Peace, this year’s kulturpristagare. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud Slide 2 of 2 Jens Liljestrand received DN’s addition, Lagercrantzen. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud Slideshow
in a snöklätt Stockholm earlier on Monday. She has recently moved home again, to the town she grew up in but also fled from.
” We had a claustrophobic relationship, Stockholm and me. I could be disgusted by some of the places that I have been on many times. It was so familiar that it stung in the eyes, ” says Johanna Peace.
And even now, after living here two weeks, it feels timeless. A friend and I were on our way to a trettioårsfest the other day and went past the quarter where we grew up at the same time as the huge snövädret pulled in. It was a strong hand, a feeling of being in a Hjalmar Söderberg novel.
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Writing has Johanna Peace has been with him from childhood in Albuquerque. Photo: Nicklas Thegerström
that sentimental and ambivalent to be back. But it is here Johanna Peace wants to be: she was done with Copenhagen, where she, like the protagonist in her autofiktiva novel, ”Nora or Brinn Oslo brinn”, moved for a relationship and a master’s degree.
there are several Reasons for the where the relationship came to an end after half a year. She was tired of being inherent in a lousy small room at the home of a buddhist woman who burned incense, not flushed in the toilet, and always held on to with the different projects, with the sewage pipes.
But, above all, Johanna Peace to have a base. And she wants to write full-time.
” I have never been able to afford to buy an apartment, just studied and worked. Now there is suddenly the opportunity to adopt a mature dog, take walks, and write. It’s so fucking fat.
the Author Johanna Peace is DN’s Kulturpristagare 2019. Photo: Nicklas Thegerström
” No, I thought it would be met with disgust. There is something ugly to write about himself and his own feelings. In addition, is jealousy, no fine feeling. I was worried that the reviews would be focused on the självupptagenheten, they would say: ”not an author who just tragglar on”.
” I was surprised, but also strengthened, as to have brought something of the reader. To it in the particular story, there is something universal that struck something of the recipient.
– It is festive and grand. Above all, it means more of writing time. And some type of acceptance, a sign to be accepted and confirmed by a specific cultural space.
Writing has Johanna Peace has been with him from childhood in Albuquerque. The mother, who worked as a psychologist and grandmother who was a literary scholar was the creative people who read, wrote and painted.
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written much, among other things, in the digital diaries when the internet was still in its infancy, but never thought that she would become a writer.
” It was never like a dream, or a picture of how I wanted to live my life. But it happened to be that I got the chance and it is wonderful, ” she says.
She responds thoughtfully, without much gestures. Offers snuff, and tells us that she, after having drilled in the taboo and the jealousy, have come a long way with the next project in the book that bears the working title ”Big spökboken” she examines the dynamics of the siblings and parenting that shape a family.
three siblings: a tvillingbrödrapar who is four years younger and a half sister who is 12 years old.
– Syskonrelationerna change so much over time. As a child I was not at all interested in my younger brothers. It was a living hell: they just ran around, screamed and listened to punk.
– But in adult age we have a very strong and close relationship, and they mean so much to me. At the same time, it can quickly change into that I want to say: ”Pour shut up, you idiot.” It is so interesting with the contrasts.
Johanna Peace, says that many have tried to give advice on how to behave towards a sibling who is significantly younger.
” They say that the only thing I can do for my little sister, is to ”be the very best storasystern in all the world.” But how is it? And what does it mean? There are many clichés around the syskonrelationer, but not so many proper calls.
– There is a common parent, which creates a strong bond. A force that unites. At the same time, an opposite movement nearly to break free. Then the man becomes suddenly older and want to shape something together again. But in what ways are we to be a family? It is strong, hard, and emotional forces.
also the next book is a stand-alone sequel to ”Nora or Brinn Oslo brinn,” says Johanna Peace. For even if she sees the future as a work that is detached from her lives in some ”forbidden” behaviors on. There are some Instagramkonton she checks in occasionally, including the account belonging to the person in the novel goes under the name of Nora.
” Yes, it is interesting what happens when you grown up in a family, and then shape the other relationships in adulthood. What it is affecting, becomes crucial – and not least what it is labeled.
– It I think. Therefore, will be the next book a bit like a continuation on the same theme, but with a different input. ”Nora”-the book was very much about other families. This is more about the family, written from an inside perspective.
