by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Journal
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 | Journal
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 | Journal
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 for the north, for distances...
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Sep 23, 2018 | Journal
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 | Journal
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...
