Works by Elin Wägner
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Easy and Fun: Elin Wägner’s Light-Hearted Articles in the Helsingborg Post by Helena Forsås-Scott
This article on Elin Wägner was to be the last of Helena Forsås-Scott’s many collaborative projects for Swedish Book Review.
Introduced with translated extracts by Sarah Death
TRANSLATED EXTRACT
Old Wives' Meeting by Elin Wägner
In this short story, a disagreement between a clergyman and his wife in a rural parish serves as a prelude to an incisive exploration of the clashes that inevitably occur between tradition and innovation, faith, superstition and reason. Translated by Sarah Death.