When the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekstrom found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book.

Rausing transcribed and edited the thirteen handwritten notebooks left by Ekstrom. The result is a memoir of exceptional depth and intensity, published to critical acclaim in Sweden in 2023.

The work showcases Ekstrom's vivid imagination, writerly precision, and psychological insight, interwoven with Rausing's spare and sober reflections. And the Walls Became the World All Around is a literary experiment, a testament to friendship, and a deep meditation on grief.

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JOHANNA EKSTROM (1970-2022) made her debut aged twenty-two with the poetry collection Skiffer, followed by thirteen books in a variety of genres, amongst them the celebrated memoirs Om man holler sig i solen (2012) and Meningarna (2020). She is the co-author, with Sigrid Rausing, of And the Walls Become All Around Me (2024).

SIGRID RAUSING is the publisher of Granta magazine and Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia (2004), Mayhem (2017), Everything Is Wonderful (2014) and the co-author and translator of And The Walls Became the World All Around Me(2024).

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