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Ninni Holmqvist

(1958) Translator

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Ninni Holmqvist is a translator.

Quick Facts About Ninni Holmqvist

Born: June 24, 1958
Profession: Translator

About Ninni Holmqvist

[Wikidata] Swedish writer... | [Wikipedia] Ninni Holmqvist, born 24 June 1958 in Lund and currently living in Scania, Sweden, is a translator and author of fiction. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories since 1995. Her novel The Unit, a dystopian novel published in 2006 and translated from Swedish into English by

Quotes by Ninni Holmqvist

“That's all it was, the dream was just Jock and me and the stick and the beach and the sea and the…

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Dream

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“You haven't forgotten what it feels like to lose a friend because of a child, I hope?" If course I hadn't forgotten…

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Children

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“Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing…

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Existence

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I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.

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Death

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“single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in”

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Children

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“For anyone who has never experienced or set any store by being close to an animal, it is perhaps difficult to understand…

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Animals

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“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”

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Book

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“I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that…

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Bits

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“If he had driven to the south coast on a different afternoon, I thought. If he had driven there on one of…

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Autumn and winter

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