My World of BooksAn Essay Collection of a Life Well Read

Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Ekman, acclaimed author of The Wolf Run and Blackwater, goes into dialogue with her own literary heroes.

Kerstin Ekman hardly needs an introduction. Since her debut in 1959, she has reached a position of a living legend on the Swedish, and international, literary scene. Her most recent novel, The Wolf Run, has sold to 21 territories and been published to high acclaim all over Europe. She has won uncountable literary awards, been part of the Swedish Academy and her internationally bestselling novel Blackwater was recently turned into a TV-series, 30 years after original publication.

Now, she has written a collection of essays about books and authors that have influenced her own life as a writer, and as a reader. In 24 chapters, Kerstin Ekman shares personal and powerful experiences she’s been gifted from reading, and talks about books she has come to love, books as friends, as comfort – and about how reading and writing go together.

“Is it stupid to get into thick and good books so early in life that you can’t really understand them? I don’t think so. You enter a fascinating world, and you can later return to it and figure out a lot that you didn’t understand from the beginning. Each re-reading opens new rooms in the story. And it opens, at best, unfamiliar rooms within yourself.”

Praise for The Wolf Run:

’The Wolf Run is a fusion, or perhaps the quintessence, of the core of Ekman’s oeuvre. And yet, in spite of its intimate relationship to her
previous work, it is entirely independent.’
Svenska Dagbladet

‘The Wolf Run may be a small book, but it cups its hands around all the major ideas concerning memory, language and narrative.’
Göteborgsposten