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Humor, everyday drama and a touch of Bogense
Østre Havnevej 30, 5400 Bogense
Danish
Lecture with author Karin Heurlin who has Bogense in her blood
Bogense is almost always in between the lines when author Karin Heurlin writes her humorous and touching novels about the sorrows and joys of ordinary life. She was born and raised in the city, so Bogense is on her fingers. Not least in her latest novel “Beaten Home,” which is set in the fictional provincial town of Svendslev. But if you know Bogense, there will probably be corners and people you recognize. Karin herself likes to write about the characters of the provincial town so much that on May 14 she will publish the sequel *” Behind the Breast Pocket.” * And right now she is writing the third novel about the city, where people shout “Hello at home” and where you know each other's losses, victories and nicknames. And nicknames.
Karin has published five novels and three children's books, and they are all about people who could be our neighbour, sister-in-law, friend or a corner of ourselves. Through her warm portraits of human flaws and shortcomings, she creates a homely universe filled with love and understanding of the imperfect.
In her lecture, Karin Heurlin will of course talk about her provincial novels, which are inspired by her own upbringing and walk in Bogense. But she'll also be talking about her novel My Wife, in which a pertentous male IT operations manager struggles with marriage and the new IT system. And about his popular Olga books, in which 12-year-old Olga tells about her embarrassing family and terrible dog that is always fussing with the anal glands.
Karin will also talk about her more personal novel, Before You Go, You Won't Stay a Little Longer. A story about a woman who moves into a death row with her two young children after her divorce. Here she starts over. And here she is sleeping on that air mattress with electric pump that her parents have bought for her in Aldi. The book is, of course, fiction. But Karin also divorced herself and moved into a death estate with her two children. And slept on an air mattress that her parents had bought at Aldi in Bogense. Now Aldi in Bogense is closed. But the story of a divorce is still there. Both in the book and inside the author. Karin herself is not afraid to talk about what hurts. The pain goes along with the job of an ordinary person. And it is precisely the ordinary person that Karin loves so much that she cannot help but write about it.
Humor is always present when Karin tells stories. Both in his books and in his lecture. It is with the funny that the author combines the serious.
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