This year's Nobel Prize winner Lászlő Krasznahorkai has taken the place of honor at Rinkeby Library in northwest Stockholm. He was followed in with a happy smile and arm in arm with two students. Everyone stood up and applauded. Then a Lucia procession followed.
What can I say about hope? You are the hope, says Krasznahorkai, addressing all the students, before it is time for coffee with the students who take turns sitting at the Nobel Prize winner's table.
Approximately 150 students from Elinsborgsskolan and Enbacksskolan in Tensta, Askebyskolan in Rinkeby, and young readers from Rinkeby Library have worked with the Nobel Prize winner's texts in various ways.
"He writes personally and very well," says Nisa Yavuz from grade nine at Enbacksskolan.
Dario Fo was the first laureate to come to Rinkeby to meet the school children. Since 1988 they have read about this year's Nobel laureate, but since 1997 the laureate has also come to visit.
