The point of view of people living in the North has also been gathered from short story writings inspired by a questionnaire used during expeditions. Those short stories, written by one author from each of the 8 countries touching the Arctic Polar Circle, will serve as creative inspiration. Here are some excerpts.
Everlasting Darkness “But mostly we met in a time of everlasting darkness because I was broken beyond repair back then. I had, to be honest, ceased to function as a human being. I seldom took a shower. I was afraid of mail. I slept away the days and spent the everlasting nights in my tiny apartment drinking pitch black coffee like it was mountain water. I had tried a few times to write a suicide note” (but writing comes hard for me).
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Rasmus Lindberg is a Swedish playwright and educated stage director at STDH (Stockholm University of Dramatic Arts). He has written 15 plays that has been translated to french, english, german, russina, croatian and georgian. He has been awarded the ”Henning Mankell Award” and the ”Henrik Ibsen award” for his playwriting. For the last six years, he has been a resident playwright and stage director at Norrbottensteatern in Luleå (the regional theatre of the northeast part of Sweden), where he also is residing with his fiancee and two daughters.
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