Eija Andersson is a course participant at Glimåkra Folk High School and she tells the story of herself and her grandmother's cottage on the Karelian nose in 1902. From when she was little in the war in Finland and came to Sweden as a war child.
- I have many notes from earlier, so I thought I would summarize it into a book and get some help here, Eija Andersson tells SVT's cultural program Sweden !.
All people carry a treasure, says Emelie Ånskog, the teacher of the course.
- Some want to summarize their lives for their grandchildren, some want to write about older relatives further back in time others want to write poems based on their lives - some want to write letters to themselves, she says.
Painful and liberating to write- Soon, the memory images bubble out like carbonated bubbles from a soft drink bottle - these strong feelings emerge every time I walk the path towards my secret fishing spot, Jan-Olof Asp reads.
He is a journalist but thinks it is a completely different thing to write fiction.
- You feel pain, anxiety. Some things you do not want to let go to the surface because you want to keep it for yourself but they still come out, they dissolve when you write - had I known that I would go through all this I would have never started writing.
The entire report can be seen in the program Sweden.