Biography:Barbro Karlén
Barbro Karlén | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sweden |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Swedish poetry Autobiography |
| Notable works | Man on Earth And the Wolves Howled When the Storm Comes A Moment in The Blossom Kingdom |
Barbro Karlén is a Swedish writer of both prose and poetry.
Career
Karlén became a prolific writer from an early age. A book of her poetry, Människan på jorden (published in English as Man on Earth), published when she was 12 years old, became a best-seller[1] and led to her widespread recognition within Sweden as a child prodigy.[2]
Karlén claims to have memories of being Anne Frank in a past life, a claim identified by at least one Anne Frank scholar as being indicative of the way the memory of Anne Frank has "transcended reality".[3] In an autobiographical work, And the Wolves Howled, she told a story of visiting Amsterdam as a child with her family, where she claimed that she found her own way to the Frank house and identified details of the house's construction and furnishings that she said had been changed since Frank's time.[4] A fabulist autobiographer about the Holocaust, Binjamin Wilkomirski, condemned Karlén's claims as nonsense: "It is a fraud in a moral sense." He contended that Karlén was "simply disturbed." rhetoric which ironically mirrored later criticism leveled against his own debunked claims.[5]
References
- ↑ Christopher Bigsby, Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/remembering-and-imagining-the-holocaust/memory-theft/FC4B109FB02AA2AD93CFA4F20EB64B79
- ↑ Barbro Karlén, Man on Earth, P.J. Kennedy & Sons 1968
- ↑ Enzer, Hyman Aaron; Solotaroff-Enzer, Sandra (2000) (in en). Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06823-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=TU5WtFEIt9AC.
- ↑ Barbro Karlén, And the Wolves Howled, London: Clairview 2000. ISBN:190263618X. Swedish original: Fragment av ett liv, Bokförlaget Robert Larson AB 2005. ISBN:9789151403168
- ↑ Eskin, Blake (2002) (in en). A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-04871-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=ShQhQipudNwC.
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