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The first version of the biography “You should be quiet – a book about Märta Tikkanen” was stopped shortly before the planned release. The plates were ready and mounted at the press.
– I do not want to break the promises I made to the dead, comments Tikkanen in Hufvudstadsbladet the decision to change parts of the book to, among other things, anonymize several people named in it.
According to Holmström, the new edition has now undergone about a hundred changes for the worse. She considers herself “forced” to compromise her artistic freedom and could not afford to refuse to change the script of more than four hundred pages.
Märta Tikkanen and her formal Advocate, daughter Susanna Ginman and head of the leadership department at Hufvudstadsbladet, describes the conflict completely differently. Her multiple views on the text were met with silence and short deadlines. Furthermore, Tikkanen was promised from the beginning that she would have the last word on the script.
The dispute between the two parties, as well as the book’s experienced editors, is now likened to a collapse. The situation is further complicated by the fact that it does not appear to have been clearly regulated who had the final right to make adjustments to the script.
When Hufvudstadsbladet asked her what Johanna Holmström thinks now about the rewritten version of her biography, she responds:
– It’s not my version, and it was completely treated unfairly towards the end. But it is still a very rich book.
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