Linda Olsson
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Biography
Linda Olsson is a Swedish-born novelist who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Published in 2005, her first novel Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs, an international best seller, has been translated into 15 languages.
"It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult."
"...I still saw everything through the filter I had created in order to survive. I could not see the happiness that preceded the abyss. I had forced myself not to acknowledge my life's most splendid moment, in order to be able to live out the rest of my life without it. I think that was what had happened. It has changed since, but back then it was impossible for me to embrace the happiness I had lost."