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Kirstine Reffstrup

Reffstrup is an author. Her latest book is "I, Unica". See also Gyldendal.

The fire that burns old worlds

ESSAY: In Europe, around 500 versions of the fairy tale Cinderella have been recorded. The film Cinderella is not only about being queer, but also about how identity is controlled. And hence what 'archive' one has at their disposal.

Time is a pond that fills up again and again

TRAVEL ESSAY: To southern Lithuania, to Poland and back. What does it mean for Reffstrup's 80-year-old mother-in-law at such a late age that time has turned a knot – that the threat from Russia has returned? What does it mean to live in a time without living in its progress?

A wonderful city, a sad city

Beirut: The disaster has its own logic – slow, slow, people live their lives. How does a crisis appear? What signs should we learn to read? And what does it mean to write in a time like now?