Eklund and Oksanen: Barking up the wrong tree
Stefan Eklund, critic and head of the culture section at the Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, names Sofie Oksanen, a budding young (arguably) writer a literary genius in today’s issue. Knowing something on Oksanens theme, the fate of the Baltic states – written from an appropriately fashionable female perspective – is a fiendishly bold statement enough to make one choke on one’s morning coffee. Without even ingesting any.