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Anna-Karin Palm
Anna-Karin Palm (born 17 March 1961) is a Swedish author and multiple award winner for culture writing. In May 2023, Palm was appointed to the Swedish Academy as a new member on chair number 16, assuming this position on 20 December 2023.
Palm grew up in Stockholm with a half-brother and a sister. Her mother trained as a doctor and her father studied engineering at Hermods.
After twelve years at the Waldorf school, Palm continued at Stockholm University with literature, philosophy and English and began PhD studies in literature at Uppsala University. For a time she was part of the editorial staff for 80s /90s, a Swedish literary magazine, and debuted in 1991 with her first novel Faunen. She has also worked, among other things, as a postal worker, cashier and reader of books for the visually impaired. Her sources of inspiration come from pictures, fairy tales, landscapes, literature and music.
Palm was first published in Novella 85, an anthology featuring contributions by debut authors. Then came another short story (1989) in the magazine 80s. Her debut novel Faunen received a very positive reception. This was followed by several novels and collections of short stories, children's books and essays. Anna-Karin Palm had her big breakthrough with the novel Målarens dötterr, 1997. It is about Maria and her brother who travel to England to search for their missing father who is an artist; the present-day story is connected with the story of Laura, who lived in England 100 years earlier with her father who was a painter. The book is a story about artistic freedom and female identity.
In 1999, both the picture book Wild Winter was published, with illustrations by Anna Bengtsson, as well as the prose book Playground, which Palm has described as a collection of more or less false, autobiographical anecdotes.
In 2001, the short story collection Into the desert came out - about short stories inspired by travels in the Middle East and Greece.
Herrgården (2005) is a novel where the story revolves around some people on the run. They flee a country stricken with civil war, villages lie in ruins, and the mansion they come to becomes their salvation. They get a room and work with the woman who owns the manor. The protagonist of the story is Ben, who takes advantage of the others' misfortune, he tells about the group's existence before, during and after the escape. Palm states that a short story in the collection In i öknen (2000) laid the foundation for Herrgården. Among the role models are Walter Ljungqvist and Eyvind Johnson, as well as Selma Lagerlöf and Virginia Woolf.
The essay book On Friendship (2007) was written by Palm together with friend, writer and philosopher Kate Larson; they are associative, personally reflective texts around varying themes, and the form of dialogic essay was invented by the friends together.
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Anna-Karin Palm
Anna-Karin Palm (born 17 March 1961) is a Swedish author and multiple award winner for culture writing. In May 2023, Palm was appointed to the Swedish Academy as a new member on chair number 16, assuming this position on 20 December 2023.
Palm grew up in Stockholm with a half-brother and a sister. Her mother trained as a doctor and her father studied engineering at Hermods.
After twelve years at the Waldorf school, Palm continued at Stockholm University with literature, philosophy and English and began PhD studies in literature at Uppsala University. For a time she was part of the editorial staff for 80s /90s, a Swedish literary magazine, and debuted in 1991 with her first novel Faunen. She has also worked, among other things, as a postal worker, cashier and reader of books for the visually impaired. Her sources of inspiration come from pictures, fairy tales, landscapes, literature and music.
Palm was first published in Novella 85, an anthology featuring contributions by debut authors. Then came another short story (1989) in the magazine 80s. Her debut novel Faunen received a very positive reception. This was followed by several novels and collections of short stories, children's books and essays. Anna-Karin Palm had her big breakthrough with the novel Målarens dötterr, 1997. It is about Maria and her brother who travel to England to search for their missing father who is an artist; the present-day story is connected with the story of Laura, who lived in England 100 years earlier with her father who was a painter. The book is a story about artistic freedom and female identity.
In 1999, both the picture book Wild Winter was published, with illustrations by Anna Bengtsson, as well as the prose book Playground, which Palm has described as a collection of more or less false, autobiographical anecdotes.
In 2001, the short story collection Into the desert came out - about short stories inspired by travels in the Middle East and Greece.
Herrgården (2005) is a novel where the story revolves around some people on the run. They flee a country stricken with civil war, villages lie in ruins, and the mansion they come to becomes their salvation. They get a room and work with the woman who owns the manor. The protagonist of the story is Ben, who takes advantage of the others' misfortune, he tells about the group's existence before, during and after the escape. Palm states that a short story in the collection In i öknen (2000) laid the foundation for Herrgården. Among the role models are Walter Ljungqvist and Eyvind Johnson, as well as Selma Lagerlöf and Virginia Woolf.
The essay book On Friendship (2007) was written by Palm together with friend, writer and philosopher Kate Larson; they are associative, personally reflective texts around varying themes, and the form of dialogic essay was invented by the friends together.