by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Jan 19, 2019 | Archive
Philip Roth and #MeToo In 2009, Marie Lundström arrives at Philip Roth’s isolated Connecticut country house to record an interview for Swedish Radio. “Are you alone?” he asks. She is. The taxi just left. Before they settle down in his studio, Roth telephones a...
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Archive
Sam Law’s Interview on Fylgia and More Sam Law, of It’s Good to Read, published this interview in November, 2018. Please, give us a little more about the person behind the book:Born in Sweden, I’ve spent the better part of my life in the US. I came to...
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Nov 17, 2018 | Archive
The Historical Novels Review of Fylgia Fylgia WRITTEN BY BIRGITTA HJALMARSON REVIEW BY VIVIANE CRYSTAL Anna is a proud, intelligent older woman recounting her life in the dark, serious atmosphere of Sweden. Her story begins in the time just preceding World War I. In...
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Oct 25, 2018 | Archive
Rilke in Sweden, Summer of 1904 Rainer Maria Rilke was in his late twenties when he wrote Ellen Key from Rome, complaining about the “galloping spring.” Two years earlier, in 1901, he had married Clara Westhoff, a sculptress, with whom he now had a daughter. He longed...
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Sep 23, 2018 | Archive
Zarathustra’s Tightrope Walker SUSAN MARY MALONE / JUNE 26, 2018 Creating a Great Novel out of Historical Events This week we have an interview with Birgitta Hjalmarson, whose beautiful novel, Fylgia,was published this month by Bedazzled Ink Publishing. I had...
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | May 20, 2018 | Archive
Mark and the Devil They say when God created Sweden, he began with the south, and so it became fertile and good in every way. The Devil, meanwhile, ran farther north, where he created the district of Mark. On the surface it was deceptively beautiful: rounded...
