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Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson

Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson, also known as UKON, is a poet and a psychoanalyst working in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published fifteen collections of poetry and a book of essays, Glömskans bibliotek (The Library of Oblivion).

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 149 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149 padlock

The Poetics of Trauma

Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson

Swedish poet and psychoanalyst Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson on trauma, silence and linguistic analysis of asylum seekers. Translated from the Swedish by Peter Graves.

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