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Jamaica Kincaid är en författare född på Antigua, tidigare brittisk koloni. Hon fick sitt litterära genombrott 1985 med romanen 'Annie John' och skriver ofta om kolonialism och mor-dotter-relationer.
– När jag var tre och halvt kunde jag läsa allt och blev något av en sensation i grannskapet säger hon.
I år tar författaren Jamaica Kincaid emot Bokmässans hederspris Sjöjungfrun. Ironiskt, tycker författaren själv, eftersom hon är livrädd för vatten.
Jamaica Kincaid är född på den karibiska ön och forna brittiska kolonin Antigua. Hon fick sitt stora genombrott 1985 med romanen ”Annie John” och skriver ofta om kolonialism och relationer mellan mödrar och döttrar.
Hör Jamaica Kincaid prata om hur hennes mamma lärde henne läsa i klippet ovan eller se en längre intervju i söndagens Babel.

Review of Georgi Gospodinov's novel "The Physics of Sadness" which weaves together personal memories, historical reflections and mythological allusions around memory, the past and attempts to preserve history, with connections to Bulgaria, Swedish politics and the author's previous works.

Ellinor Skagegård's debut novel "Wild Birds" depicts four female students in Uppsala in 1906 and their struggle for freedom, independence and sexual self-determination in a society characterized by double messages and oppression. The novel focuses on women's inner lives, longing, guilt and mental illness, and is the first part of the trilogy "Uppsalakransen".

Folkteatern in Gothenburg has released an AI-generated mockumentary on YouTube that shows a fictitious cultural center called Folk tower, where world stars such as Beyoncé, Madonna, Obama, Macron and Merkel participate in the opening. The satire reflects real concern that the Folkteatern is threatened with closure following criticism from right-wing politicians who call the operation a 'sosse project'. The mockumentary uses humor to question the value of culture and the role of the audience in the performing arts.

The article explores the origins of the Muppers' signature tune in a German film from 1939 and links it to Nazi cultural policy, while drawing parallels to today's Swedish cultural debate and the Sweden Democrats' influence on cultural policy.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, George Lucas's dream project for nearly two decades, has been completed in a former parking lot near USC in Los Angeles and will open to the public on September 22. The museum, which Lucas calls "the people's art temple", houses 40,000 works of which only seven percent are Star Wars-related, while the rest include works by artists such as Banksy, Frida Kahlo and Norman Rockwell.
An exhibition about the writer and artist Peter Weiss examines how art can resist political oppression and violence, with works from fifteen artists that converse with his life's work about the rise of fascism and the need for revolutionary resistance.