Karolina Ramqvist’s The Beginning Celebrates 10 Years

July 25th marked the ten-year anniversary of the publication of Karolina Ramqvist’s cult-status novel The Beginning. The novel, read by a generation of young women, was highlighted in an article from Dagens Nyheter in relation to its ten-year anniversary.

Here is an excerpt:

“Karolina Ramqvist was one of the most high-profile feminists of the 90’s, at a time when the term was still considered extreme. […] In The Beginning she [Karolina Ramqvist] picks up the thread again, but now with a more complicated narrative: it is a kind of coming-of-age novel about the impossibility of living as you learn.”

Read the full article here.