In 2013, poet Ola Julén passed away, only 42 years old. His collective publication then consisted of a single collection of poems, Orissa, which was published in 1999. In the fall, Orissa is joined by a forgotten manuscript found in his home: The Real History of Africa.
“I don't know how to explain this to you.
There is something wrong with my eyes.
My poems, my life is not alive.
I'm so longing for a girl. "
So reads a 29-year-old Ola Julén at the release party for the poem collection Orissa, 1999. Something that many hoped would become a turning point for Ola Julén whose life was marked by loneliness, the desire for love, an eye disease.
"An undetected bomb"After Ola Julén had passed away, his mother found a bundle of paper in his apartment and then contacted his son's old teacher, the poet Marie Lundqvist.
- She came walking with this script in a plastic bag and I received it as a secret transaction. It felt like going home with an undetected bomb, says Marie Lundqvist.
Marie Lundqvist took the help of the literary scientist Daniela Floman, close friend of Ola Julén, and they gave in to a catchy and rather unpleasant text.
- It has had an honesty. It has been both very heavy and at the same time felt important. I liked Ola a lot, so to me it has been like hanging out with a friend who is no longer there, says Daniela Floman.