La vie de l'activiste, militante des droits des minorités, écrivaine prolifique et icône de la contre-culture suédoise
Katarina Taikon (le livre se compose d'une biographie par la journaliste Lawen Mohtadi, du premier volume de la série autobiographique pour enfants de Taikon, et d'un essai de Maria Lind).
Katarina Taikon's activist work brought her face-to-face with the most marginalized communities in society as well as prime ministers. Her writing defined the Roma struggle for equal rights and made accessible anti-racist narratives in children's literature. Active from the early 1960s through the 1970s, Taikon faced a Sweden in which the Roma minority was heavily discriminated against. They were excluded from housing, the education system, and the rights of citizenship that the welfare state provided.
This book tells the story of Taikon's life in three parts. The first is a 2012 biography by journalist Lawen Mohtadi. The second is Taikon in her own words: the first volume of her autobiographical children's book series, Katitzi. In Katitzi, a fierce coming-of-age story, Taikon writes about her struggle as part of an ethnic minority in Sweden. The final section is an essay written by curator Maria Lind that articulates the cultural impact of Katitzi.
Mohtadi's biography brought renewed attention to Taikon's literary and activist work and created a cultural reckoning that named Taikon one of the most important Swedish human-rights figures of the twentieth century. This volume aims to introduce Taikon's work and legacy to readers beyond Sweden.
