It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Bio: Ninni Holmqvist, born 24 June 1958 in Lund and currently living in Skåne, Sweden, is a translator and author of fiction. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories since 1995.