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The protest against the Academy Said no to 300, 000 crowns

The acclaimed author of Birgitta Lillpers has been a long succession of literary prizes and awards since her debut in 1982. However, she refrained from it so fa

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The protest against the Academy Said no to 300, 000 crowns

The acclaimed author of Birgitta Lillpers has been a long succession of literary prizes and awards since her debut in 1982. However, she refrained from it so far, the nicest, at least in monetary terms – to say ' no ' to the level of 300 000 sek from the Swedish government.

She was in 2018, made it clear that she was awarded the Gerard Bonnier prize, which is awarded by the royal Academy. It was at the very moment when the scandal surrounding the våldtäktsdömde by Jean-Claude Arnault was raging at its worst, and the Academy was involved in for a long period of divisions and internal conflict.

< Kulturprofilen by Jean-Claude Arnault and his wife, Catherine Miller, artist and member of the board of the Academy.Photo by: < / b> by CECILIA ÖSTERBERG / IBL . ”the Angry of the stress,”

" There was a letter from the Academy, in the box, I realized that there was a price. It should of course be only a lot of fun, and an honour to find a akademikuvert of the box, and it has been a while, it's happened before. But for now, the circumstances of the other, the whole state around it, the whole thing was undignified, it is not possible, " says Birgitta Lillpers, 62.

" I was upset by stress-as soon as I wore it, and before I had opened it. I thought it was very distasteful of fighters tussle tramsande of the academy in the society of chaos, where nearly all of the rolling out of the uppmärksamhetslusta, at the same time handing out money to people who typically earn very little money and in need of some money.

" I did, admittedly, yes, at first, because we needed a new roof on the house. But then I got my guts too much for me, and that money could go to someone else, " she says.

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for The same reason, have refrained, Birgitta Lillpers to take part in the Academy's annual meeting in december of 2018, where she was invited to attend.

the Swedish Academy's formal gathering in december 2018 at the latest.Photo by: < / b>: HENRIK MONTGOMERY/TT / TT NEWS agency

the Prize of 300 000 sek per year is paid out of a fund which, by the Naturally, new york will and testament, in 1988 it was donated to the Academy of music.

She explained that she was to receive an award from the Swedish Academy will set the date if it becomes necessary, as in the Academy, seems to aim at a good, and uneventful as it should be.”

”Very boring,”

" I can confirm that, and she said no, and that we are respected, of course, to her will. Do not think, however, that she is entered for any reason. We thought it was very good, as we have in the Academy is her very highly as a poet, " says Anders Olsson as the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary at that time.

He went on to say it is ”very rare” that anyone would say no to the price.

" oliver was a permanent secretary, when Birgitta Lillpers said no to the price.Photo by: < / b> of PONTUS LUNDAHL/TT / TT NEWS agency

Birgitta Lillpers has written more than 20 volumes of poetry and a novel, has just come out with a new book. It is her thirteenth book of poetry, ”Kälda”, published by the publisher of the Pequod Press. She described the book as ”the civilisationskritisk”, and that it is influenced by, among other things, to the great forest fires of the summer of the year 2018.

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" it is, ”Kälda” civilisationskritisk. I am tired, so very, very much, in stark opposition to so much that is very quickly becoming the norm in our highly konsumtionsinriktade way of life, " says Birgitta Lillpers.

" I was standing in a cloud of smoke from the burning forests and the heat of the moment, from an ecological collapse, and was at the same time, the emergency is on the lives of a lot of world of kulturförstörelse. In addition, the private of the difficult things, " she says.

Birgitta Lillpers, explains that the title means ”the source” at the place of origin to orsa case and refers to the fact that she, literally, went down in the spring.
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She was firmly entrenched in my hometown, I was born and raised in the Cause in which she lives with her family in the ancestral home of the Lillpersvägen and, among other things, engaged in the sheep. The environment, agriculture, livestock, and crops are often featured in her books.

" I was, for the first time in my life, to go out into the great depression. I stood on the edge of the area. Instead of rising the error, I downloaded the gårdskällan, which for decades had been cleaned and restored. It will be the finest possible drinking water right out of the mountain, " says Birgitta Lillpers.

" I had to start by standing in the smoke, to clear the snow out of the many hundreds of kilos of mud. And suddenly, I began to write this work.
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Very soon, I noticed that the Swedish language is not fully worked out, not as a ensamspråk in this regard. Do you write literature on English as a source, then you will be immediately symbolfällor. I'm not interested in, in particular, the use of symbols, it was to be so close to the water and the sludge and the stones as possible. To find the source of the language, which is, of course, is the Orsamålet, " she said.

Birgitta Lillpers, says that the Orsamålet is basically a spoken language, ”great, in a good way”. And emphasizes that she is writing specifically about the source, ”a kälda on, He's just a kälda nothing more and nothing less”.

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Since his debut with the poetry collection ”Stämnoja” in 1982, she has published 13 collections of poetry, six novels, and a historical book about the hästkulturen of the Source. Her works include the novels ”Blomvattnarna” (1987), and While they still had the horses,” (1993) as well as the poetry collections: ”Visit to a strange kennel.” (1990), ”industrial monuments” (2012), ”Notes on the hay” (2016).

Birgitta Lillpers has received numerous literary awards, among them the Doblougska award (2001), The Nios stora pris (2008), Bellmanpriset (2011), Ekelöfprisen-in (in 2016), and the Aspenströmpriset (2019).

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