I’m a winner!
This is getting silly. Not only am I getting married and celebrating Noir as the Best Roleplaying Game of 2006, I’ve also won a Swedish writing contest!
Each year since 1993 the magazine Ordfront Magasin (page in Swedish) selects a few texts from debuting poets and writers. Last year they had almost 600 submitted texts, I don’t know how many this year. The magazine has 92.000 readers, and is quite well known in Sweden.
My text is the short story Extraknäckt, possible to read for free on the web if you know enough Swedish. The judges called it “a truthful account of life in a workplace in Sweden 2007. A tragicomic story with quick dialogue that feels both absurd and true”. I’m listed as Jonas Ferry, since I’ll change to that soon enough.
Of course I’m really, really proud. It’s a great honor, and I’m very happy.