Nominated for Sports Book of the Year 2022
During Covid-19, football stadiums around the world were shut down. But the traditional Danish division clubs were, miraculously, allowed to remain open. Here, Jonas Villumsen found refuge from an overwhelming global situation and rediscovered his love for a sport and a community that often drowns in million-dollar contracts, corruption, and slave-like conditions at the elite level. Villumsen documents the quiet Danish national spirit with witty and affectionate atmospheric portraits from the local green turf, where even the uninitiated get a special insight into a Sunday sanctuary.
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Nominated for Sports Book of the Year 2022
During Covid-19, football stadiums around the world were shut down. But the traditional Danish division clubs were, miraculously, allowed to remain open. Here, Jonas Villumsen found refuge from an overwhelming global situation and rediscovered his love for a sport and a community that often drowns in million-dollar contracts, corruption, and slave-like conditions at the elite level. Villumsen documents the quiet Danish national spirit with witty and affectionate atmospheric portraits from the local green turf, where even the uninitiated get a special insight into a Sunday sanctuary.
Jonas Villumsen, born 1983, is a trained musician and teacher from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory. This is his debut as a fiction writer, and with his musical and satirical talent for storytelling, he conjures narratives about the quirks of everyday life and the humble undercurrents with a pen that reaches out to literary predecessors such as Lars Saabye Christensen and Hunter S. Thompson.
Baggaardens Baglommebøger is a series of independent and conclusive short forms that serve as an introduction to overlooked or curious voices in Danish literature.
Zven Balslev, known for his challenging and surreal style, is affiliated as the cover illustrator for the series.
Bølge – eller otte noter fra tribunen is number 6 in the series Back Pocket Books. The author's fee for the publication is donated to Aida Football / Aida Youth Center.
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