Sigh.
I’m absolutely green with envy.
This is the Aarhus 39 weekend (if that’s what it is when it begins on a Thursday), and I’m not there. Meg Rosoff is swanning around in the company of Eoin Colfer and Chris Riddell, two ex-children’s laureates. Two of my favourites. They, in turn, are swanning around in the company of Meg, favourite everything.
I don’t see how it can get much worse. For me, that is. They and Aarhus are probably having a great time. They are probably swanning around with Daniel Hahn, assuming he’s in a position to swan with anyone.
This Astrid Lindgren nominated whirlwind has gathered at least two more ALMA nominees – Maria Turtschaninoff and Ævar Þór Benediktsson – as well as most of the other 37 Aarhus 39ers. That’s them in the jolly photo below.
No doubt they are mostly swanning too.
And the lucky citizens of Aarhus will have been going round to all these book events, most of which appear to have been free.
I hope this means that it might become a habit, and that maybe next year I can swan somewhere. Unless all the laureates are worn out by then.
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