Lennart Hellsing's Grave
Just outside the main entrance of St Clara Church is a small wooden cross without a name, surrounded by a small ring of stones and flowers. It's the grave of Lennart Hellsing, a writer and translator who is perhaps most known for his children's books.
Among them Ägget (The Egg), starring an egg that dreams about what great things it will achieve once it hatches - only to find that it remains unsatisfied: as soon as you become something you want to become something else - something better or something greater
[*]. Finally, the bird lays an egg, hoping that it will fly higher and go further than it did - and then the story starts over.
Another book I remember is Den Underbara Pumpan (The Wonderful Pumpkin), about two bears and a magic pumpkin that grows to be so enormous that the two bears start using it as a house. This book ends with the bears realizing that they don't exist: "Now we're air bears", said Big Bear. "Air bears", said Little Bear, "aren't those bears that don't exist?" "Of course", said Big Bear, "and we don't exist! This is just a fairy tale. Don't you know that?"
