Bodil Malmsten is 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.
“I’m in my garden in Finistere. It’s an afternoon at the end of July 2001, a soft haze over the countryside. The Atlantic is breathing tides and seaweed, the reassuring sound of the warning buoy like an owl.”
