Works by female Nobel Laureates in literature interpreted in the Nobel Creations exhibition
December 06, 2018

The creations will be shown in collaboration with the Stockholm City Library between 6-20 December in the Rotunda at Stockholm City Library. 

Creative encounter between literature and fashion

The six books have been selected by Professor Sara Danius, who has been a guest teacher in this year's course.

-Beckmans has a tradition of having students taught by renowned guest lecturers. The involvement of Professor Sara Danius in our education has resulted in an extremely creative meeting between literature and fashion, but also in a minority being highlighted in the Nobel context: the female Nobel laureates. One would have hoped that women placed in the shadows of the great contexts belonged to the past, unfortunately this is not the case. We simply have to write our own history, and now Beckmans has contributed a chapter," says Headmaster Karina Ericsson Wärn.

In their creations, the students have made interpretations of the literary works and been challenged in creating a contemporary festive dress. Erika Haglund and Ronja Berg have together interpreted Herta Müller's novel "The Breathing Swing" which depicts the fate of a young man as a prisoner in a Russian labor camp.

"We have created a creation that interprets the prisoner's poetic descriptions of the brutal existence. He tells the story of the angel of hunger— the shadow that always survives starvation and wanders from person to person to break it down. About the potato peels and the grams of bread that keep him alive. About the white hare chasing the life out of the prisoners and emerging in their sunken cheeks. He is becoming increasingly inaccessible, encapsulated in all his noisy emotions," erika and Ronja explain.

Participating students 

Britta Åsåker, Christina Leube, Erika Haglund, Filippa Agaton, Gabriella Danerlöv, Marte Stensrud, Mathilda Guve, Michelle Klemendz, Niklas Gustavsson, Ronja Berg, Sarah Niklasson, Siri Gertonsson and Yanis Dorey.

Reissals of the 14 women awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 

The exhibition also features the eight Swedish publishing companies that have joined forces to jointly recognize the 14 women who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature over the years. The publishers have resstlaged their work by the authors. The new editions will be available for lending at the library.