Fiction

Writing is a way of thinking. My novels are often born out of a question - of such a complex or intricate nature that a whole book is needed to form the answer. Somewhere along the line of writing the novel, I usually forget the initial question, but when the manuscript is finished - then it hits me: there's the answer, such as it is.

     I believe that if it were possible to shorten this answer, I would have written a that much shorter novel - down to one single sentence, ideally. Mostly, that is not possible. Not to me, anyway.

Writing is a way of dreaming. It is strange how the construction of the novel becomes so concrete one can even smell its scents, stumble on its paving stones, get soaked by its rain, yes, be overcome by its intensified form of reality. The novel truly becomes in some sense more real than so called reality, sharper and more plausible.

     In that way writing is like living - many lives.

     I am greedy. One single life, no matter how long or rich, is not enough for me. When I see people pass by my table at a street cafe, when I gaze at all the lit windows of an apartment building in the evening, when I watch strangers join and greet each other at a railway station - then this greed burns inside of me. I want to live all those lives.

     In my novels, this is exactly what I do.

All's End

A science fiction novel of mine, published both in Swedish and English. Here's the first chapter of it - in English.

Occasionally I Contemplate Murder

A complete book online, on the elusive meaning of life and death. The book has been published in both Swedish and English.

Waves

Vaguely erotic short stories.

Video recitals

Video filmed recitals of some of my poems and such.

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My stuff

MYSELF

A very compressed autobiography about my life so far.

MY BOOKS

All the books I have published so far, with presentations in English.

MYTHS

My academic work on creation myths, theories on cosmogony, and related topics.

FABULOUS FICTION

My favorite novels by other writers, mostly classics. A commented list.

SVENSKA

Mina skriverier på svenska.

Other stuff

• WRITERS GUILD

  The organization of Swedish authors.

• PROJECT RUNEBERG

  Scandinavian literature online.

• PROJECT GUTENBERG

  World classic literature online.

• ONLINE BOOKS

  World literature online.

• SWEDISH LIBRARY

  Libris, the Swedish royal library search engine.

• CONGRESS LIBRARY

  The Library of Congress, USA.

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  ONLINE BOOKSTORE

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