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49 Autumn 2018 Lars Draws (b. 1969) Kjell Thorsso
n Publisher Berghs www.berghsforlag.se Rights Koja Agency Catharina Lantz catharina.lantz@ kojaagency.com Selected Works Djungelpiraterna 2017 Hitta bilen 2016 Havsmonster i knipa 2015 Lars Draws Meta-fictional devices that cross the boundaries between fictional worlds are an effective way to ask questions about the very composition of our existence through literature. What’s really real, and what’s made-up? Where are the limits of a world? When Lasse is bored he draws. He draws a new world, a little less accurate and somewhat woolly, but more colourful. But soon, even this world gets boring without anyone else to play with. It’s lucky that Lasse meets a dragon and a horse. It turns out that they are bored too. Maybe they would like to draw? The dragon and the horse sketch reality, and Lasse returns home with his new friends. The shift between worlds becomes a paradoxical whirlpool. And it’s clear that the world guides our imagination, at the same time as the imagination creates our world. Both mind-blowing and sparklingly elegant. Photo: Stefan Tell