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Overheard
“What’s it like in the place you live?” a friend asks me. The answer, today, is easy. Within just a minute from each other, I overheard these two sentences today on my morning walk. The first sentence. “We just arrived from the Himalayas!” A young woman with perfect teeth talks into her mobile phone in […]
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What’s it like in prison
All right, a bait-kind title for once. But I just took some photos of these historical buildings for my novel and thought I would share some of them with you. The walls here are thick and the doors are heavy and have always, of course, been heavily guarded. Less so these days in this particular […]
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Scanning glass negatives – part three
My latest scans show one photo that looks like it was taken in Viborg, though I may be mistaken too. The rest of the photos do not give me much clues as to who the families were, nor where they lived. All I can say at this stage is that whoever took these photos had […]
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إلى القاهرة
أكتب رواية بعنوان “انتظار” وأحب الغوص في القصة كل صباح واكتشاف أين تأخذ القارئ ، وإلى أين تأخذني! سأشارك بعض أجزاء الرواية في الترجمة العربية، وأتمنى أن تستمتعوا بها ما هي هذه الرواية؟ تدور هذه الرواية حول شاب يحاول الوصول إلى والده عبر الحدود بين الدولة السوفيتية وفنلندا في عام 1920. وأيضا بعد حوالي خمسين […]
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Chapters from the past
I took these photographs yesterday on a quick bike tour. They represent places that I write about in connection with my childhood. Most of these locations will eventually be a decor in my book and the photos work as reminders in the process. The rail road bridge, or what’s left of it, used to be […]
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Jarmo Pikkujämsä 