Inte med den eld jag har nu

by Bodil Malmsten

mina bästa år är förbi ...
Men jag skulle inte vilja ha dem tillbaks.

Not with the fire in me now

Ett slut som det här slutet men inte detta slut.

Genres: Poetry

75 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944 in Bjärme, Jämtland) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents.

The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France. It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block.

She was awarded a doctorate honoris causa ad gradum (honorary degree) by the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Mid-Sweden University in Östersund in 2006.