Jag vill att det ska bli som vanligt igen. Om och om igen, det mal i mig - jag vill att det ska bli som vanligt igen, vanligt, som vanlig vill jag bli... jag vill att det ska bli som förut, för två år sen, fem, femton, tjugofem... Enkelt, självklart. Suzanne vid min sida. Pauline som hör av sig, som ringer, hälsar på. Jag som repeterar, har genrep, premiär, spelar hela spelperioden, filmar, gör tv, radioteater; gör det jag alltid gjort - det som gjorde att jag var jag Maurice Lind.
Author
Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944 in Bjärme, Jämtland) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents. The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France. It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block. She was awarded a doctorate honoris causa ad gradum (honorary degree) by the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Mid-Sweden University in Östersund in 2006.
