This homepage presents not only my authorship, my literary activities and my journalistic contributions to some of the major Swedish newspapers.

It also presents my the home I bought in 2006. Gammelgården ( The Old Manor House), is a former old people's home. It is situated in a still very vibrant farming country, just one and a half hour south of Stockholm, in the district  of Södermanland, famous for its soft and very green natural beauty, many lakes, oak pastures, mansions and traditional farming country.

http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/provincial/sodermanland/welcome/

My home, just opposite a small country church from the 12th century, is  becoming a center for cultural activities for a larger public, as well as a workshop- and meeting place for  smaller groups,  concerned with culture and change  in its deepest sense; engagement in the world around us and in our inner worlds, which --as I understand it-- ultimately is the same thing.

Summer 2009 we staged a comprehensive series of events around the theme: "Do we have a language for what happens to our Earth", with some of Sweden's foremost writers, actors and musicians. Hundreds of people visisted our small country church. Summer 2010 we arranged writing workshops --"Every human being is a story" --  for the rural people and also for young immigrant kids -- mainly from Somalia -- living in the town close by.

The Family Constellation workshop on the theme "Forgivness, Reconciliation and Family Constellations" was a huge success.We combined family constellation practise with writing exercises and it worked out very well! We did a follow up the summer of 2010 and are now repeating the theme but in other venues, all around Sweden. Me and Isabella Hermelin are interested in developing Family Constellation work for special areas like Nature Constallations and special Jewish themes. 

http://www.hiddensolution.com/scandia0411.htm

We have been having an additiobnal jewish tehme Constellation workshop and we would be interested in being in touch with other groups/facilitators active or interested in this theme.

I am holding series of Writing Workshops at my house, from May well into October every year and they are developing very well. I now have students returning for a  fourth time! Students come here for a weekend and the ambiance, homegrown food & Nature is a part of the experience.

I am continuing and developing  my work as a workshops leader. Family constellations in combination with writing exerecises will be my special area of interest in the coming years.

My book, Om jag så måste resa till Los Alamos was published by my Swedish publishing house Natur och Kultur in September 2009. "Even if I have to travel to Los Alamos" is a mixed fiction and personal travel logg book on the development of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA , 1943-1945. It  tells the story of the people "on the hill" from a new angle, giving prominence to the women around Robert Oppenhemier. It tries to unravel and look more deeply into the modern, scientific project, how it could give birth to weapons of mass destruction and how the desacralisation of the world has affected us.

The book  received a best-book-of-the-year stipend from Albert Bonnier's publishinghouse and in March I received the prize as this year's Moa Martinsson-laureate at a ceremony in Stockholm. Moa Martinsson was the only women in a generation of Swedish writers appearing on the literary scene in the first decades of the 20th centuary, all of them from extremely poor working class and peasant backgrounds. Some of them made their way into the Swedish Academy and the Nobel prize. Moa was the only prominent woman in this group.

http://www.anitagoldman.com/html/images/full_losalamos..pdf

In May 2011 my new novel Kärlekskursen (The Love Curriculum) was published:

http://abo.karur.se/nok/allmanlitteratur/titlar-allmanlitt/k/Karlekskursen-ISBN-9789127131422/

 It is a very intimate novel, a story about passionate awakening, set partly in the kitchen of my country house. In the novel, the woman  called Katja is a television star, who is left by her husband on the first page. Breaking down, she finally goes into therapy. The meeting with the therapist awakens  not only deep memories , but also a spiritual awakening and a great love for the therapist.  The novel is divided into two scenes or rooms. One is “The Room with the Yellow Sofa”, the therapy room. The other room is “God’s Kitchen” , a big country kitchen in the Swedish countryside (my kitchen in Årdala), where the woman sits writing the story of The Room with the Yellow Sofa, trying to” write the man out of her” and trying to gain understanding on a personal and especially on a spiritual level about where she has landed with all this. She is also gardening, cooking food, making jellies and chutneys. Recipes are included. It is a rather funny, sensuous and at times quite learned exposition on God and food, on body and soul.

I continue my work as a contributer of cultural criticism to the major daily Swedish newspapers, presently to Expressen and Dagens Nyheter. 

There is not much English language translations of my work unfortunately, this is one example:    

http://www.swedishenglishtranslation.com/jwriting/goldman-e.htm       

For more information and contact, do contact mailto:gammelgarden@anitagoldman.com