And the Walls Became the World All Around

by Johanna Ekström, Sigrid Rausing (translator)

Johanna Ekstr�m was a Swedish artist and writer who published over a dozen books of poetry, fiction and memoir in her lifetime. In 2022, ill with cancer, she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to edit and finish her final book. Originally a memoir on the loss of a relationship during the pandemic, the focus shifted from the loss of love to, potentially, the loss of life.

These excerpts from Ekstr�m's notebooks interwoven with Rausing's reflections on the text and on their friendship are a testament to a voice and a life; a book made in grief over the loss of a close friendship of over thirty years.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2024

About the author

Johanna Ekström was a Swedish author and artist. Ekström made her published debut in 1993 with a collection of poems called Skiffer, and the following year she had her first exhibition at Galleri Charlotte Lund in Stockholm. Ekström published a seven collections of poems and two short story collections, and two novels.

Reviews

[Nina]

”En tankebok i skuggan av döden” är en väldigt bra beskrivning av denna bok. Och vilken fin vänskap Johanna och Sigrid måste ha haft.

[Margareta Wedmark]

”En tankebok i skuggan av döden” - tänker människor verkligen på det beskrivna sättet? Och alla dessa drömmar - att läsa om andras drömmar är för mig helt meningslöst. Känns så hemskt och taskigt att dissa denna bok men den kräver nog en annan intellektuell nivå än vad jag besitter. Beskriver dock stark och nära vänskap samt kärlek till dotter.

[D.]

abbandonato