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When Ester Blandford was born, 18 months ago, the Swedish state did all it could to ease her way into the world - and encourage her parents to have even more kids. Her mother, Therese, 29, a children's librarian in the small southern town of Nyhamnsläge, took 15 months off work, most of it at 80% pay, to care for the baby, her first child. She now works part-time. Ester's dad, Christian, also 29, a physical therapist, stays home one day a week to help out. He too gets 80% pay from the state...
...Swedish Academy, the committee that selects the Nobel Prize winners, cited Soyinka in 1986 as someone “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence...
That same year, he would also publish a prose work, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972), which the Swedish Academy called “a literary work of the first rank...
...Well,” I said at last, “maybe you could marry a foreign national and get citizenship somewhere else.” Which is how my brother decided that he’ll take Swedish next semester: “Swedish girls...
...have no idea why Swedish television came to this polling place,” Kuris said...