Bodil Malmsten

My photograph of Bodil while signing books at Akademibokhandeln in Stockholm. Copyright belongs to me, so don't you dare snatch this pic, you loafing oaf. Bodil Malmsten is one of my favourite Swedish writers, perhaps the favourite Swedish one. She wrote along the lines of Michel de Montaigne and Thomas Bernhard , longing for the real, never settling for the bad. Her immediate, non-apologetic,…