When Jon Michelet died in 2018, Marte Michelet was encouraged from many quarters to write about her father. For Marte, it stirred only reluctance. A book about Dad? No thanks. Until one summer she gets the idea that she will “LARP” him. She has a hotel room for the night, a small grant in her account, and a few loose weeks of holiday ahead of her. So she asks, like the Christians do: What Would Jon Michelet Do?
In Worse Things Have Happened Abroad, Marte Michelet writes with sparkle and intimacy about growing up along the party line, about the advantages and drawbacks of the Theatre Café, about belonging to the suspicious foreigners in Lusaka, about the highs and failures of fatherhood, and about learning to walk like a man.
Meet Marte Michelet in conversation with Mímir Kristjánsson, politician, author, Jon Michelet biographer and, according to Marte, her father’s only son.
Book sales and signing after the event.