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Ragnwei Axellie
Centralväg. 28B, 79146 Falun, Sweden. +46(0)2332526. r@axellie.se www.axellie.se
The author Ragnwei Axellie
made her debut in 1979 with a collection of poems called
"Daddy beloved daddy".
Since then she has published a number of titles attracting much attention - all of which reflect the complexity of human relations and conditions.
She has also made programmes for Swedish radio and television and is represented in modern school textbooks and anthologies.
Some of her production has been set to music and produced as CDs and also been staged at various theatres.
Ragnwei Axellie has even been selected for prestigious awards. Some of them are from The Kaj Munk Society and the Culture Prize from the community of Harjedalen. She has also received award from AF-Stiftelsen Psalm and Song severel times.
She has made texts for ”Mass by the shore”, a service which was given in Storkyrkan Stockholm. She has also created Easter Oratorium which was composed by Roland Forsberg.
Premier-07 in Immanuelskyrkan Stockholm.
Many of her texts are translated to other languages. In severel countries her songtexts have reached a wider public. In an international Project in cooperation with Tallberg Forum between schools in Capetown, South Africa and Insjon, Sweden, has Ragnwei Axellie created a text: Water - The Wonder We Share.
For Vox Pacis World-premiere in August 08, in Stockholm, has Ragnwei Axellie created a new psalm-text to the archbishop/Nobel-Prize-Winner Nathan Soderbloms well known music.
Apart from writing Ragnwei Axellie also expresses herself in pictures. She has had many of her own art exhibits.
Ragnwei Axellie has been invited to show her paintings in many churches. Some years ago her big oil paintings were shown (the whole time of Lent ) on the old graveslabs inside the church in Storkyrkan Stockholm. Masthuggskyrkan in Gothenborg and
Kristine Kyrka in Falun are other churches which have shown
her paintings.
Ragnwei Axellie has also exhibited her paintings abroad.
Ragnwei Axellie
author / artist
I am driven to bring out a message through my paintings and texts.
All of us need love. All of us need peace.
We bear the same needs in our hearts. We have to share the same gifts from the Earth.
We are all visible. We are all loved.
To form our own day. To form our own life.
It is a big work.
To see and take advantage of the opportunities.
Taking opportunities that can transform the injustice in the world.
Courage.
Creativity.
Joy of living.
These are gifts we can give to each other.
Every moment of love and joy make us stronger.
That is one part of my vision.
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