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- ISLAND OF THE DOOMED: “75 years ago, Dagerman wrote a book for our times …”
- Stellan Skarsgård on THE MAKING OF MAN
- THE MAKING OF A MAN – New Doc on Festival Circuit!
- Lichtman on Wedding Worries
- The case of [Khashoggi]
- Amos Oz: Recipient of Stig Dagerman Award 2018 – Acceptance Remarks
- Our Need for Consolation Is Insatiable … (film text excerpts)
- “Wedding Worries and Other Upsets”
- In Defense of the Politics of the Impossible – The Case of World Citizens for Peace
- Do We Have Faith in Humankind?
- Per Wästberg, Swedish Academy Chair, on Stig
- For One Day A Year, Let’s Make Believe….
- On Seeking And Offering Refuge
- CRITIC’S BEST BOOK PICK 2014: Dagerman’s Short Fiction
- To Stig’s Memory Nov 4, 2014
- Self Deception In A BURNT CHILD
- Stig Into Turkish
- Meeting Stig
- Reading A BURNT CHILD
- In the Forest of Paradoxes
- Island of the Doomed Reviewed
- Reading ISLAND OF THE DOOMED
- Writer’s Role: To Build Bridges And Break Glass
- To Dialogue with Dagerman
- Anita on Stig
Author Archives: lo.dagerman
ISLAND OF THE DOOMED: “75 years ago, Dagerman wrote a book for our times …”
Stig Dagerman’s novel Island of the Doomed is published in Russia, 75 years after its first release. Not surprising at all, writes Bengt Söderhäll, culture correspondent of the Swedish daily Arbetarbladet, as he tells the story of Dagerman’s book about humanity in … Continue reading
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Stellan Skarsgård on THE MAKING OF MAN
There is so much in THE MAKING OF A MAN (documentary, 48 min, 2019) that greatly interests me. As an avid fan of Stig Dagerman’s writing, I could listen to Lo for hours talking about him. But I also appreciate the central … Continue reading
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THE MAKING OF A MAN – New Doc on Festival Circuit!
Announcing the September 2020 world premiere, at the Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival, of a film that is a labor of love!! Told across time and space (postwar France & Sweden, present day United States), THE MAKING OF A … Continue reading
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Lichtman on Wedding Worries
Johannes Lichtman (Such Good Work, Simon & Schuster) reviews Wedding Worries. Excerpts from Tin House Winter Reading 2018 Issue 78. Read full review here […] Wedding Worries is a polyphonic novel that takes place over twenty-four hours surrounding a country wedding. At the … Continue reading
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The case of [Khashoggi]
The following excerpt is from a speech by Stig Dagerman given at a rally in 1947 to protest the murder of Bulgarian opposition leader Nicola Petkov. In the translation below, Petkov’s name has been replaced by that of Jamal Khashoggi. … Continue reading
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Amos Oz: Recipient of Stig Dagerman Award 2018 – Acceptance Remarks
Dear Members of the Jury of the Stig Dagerman Prize. Dear representatives of the Älvkarleby Municipality, my dear publishers and editors, Dear Friends, Dear Guests: How I wish I could be with you today and visit Stig Dagerman’s Älvkarleby. Thank all … Continue reading
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Our Need for Consolation Is Insatiable … (film text excerpts)
Original title in Swedish: Vårt behov av tröst är omättligt … (1952). The following excerpts are narrated by Stellan Skarsgård in the short film Our Need for Consolation (2012) by Dan Levy Dagerman. Text selection and screen adaptation by Lo Dagerman, … Continue reading
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“Wedding Worries and Other Upsets”
In this essay from 1950, Stig reflects on the writing of his novel Wedding Worries and his creative process at large. Late one evening in 1931, I went into a stable loft on the farm in Älvkarleby in search of a … Continue reading
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In Defense of the Politics of the Impossible – The Case of World Citizens for Peace
La Politica dell’Impossibile, a well-received recent Italian collection of Stig Dagerman’s political articles (Iperborea, 2016). The following article from the collection is on The World Citizen movement for peace spearheaded by American Garry Davis. “Politics has been called the art of the … Continue reading
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Do We Have Faith in Humankind?
— Stig Dagerman, 1950. His response to a magazine question posed to six authors. To speak of humanity is to speak of oneself. In his relentless indictment of humanity at large, the individual himself is a part. Only death can separate … Continue reading
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