Published 30 May 2024 at 15.31
Cultural news. Niccolò Machiavelli's 16th-century book “The Prince”, which instructs Renaissance rulers in cold-blooded power politics, is hot in Sweden's prisons.
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– I have drawn off an order of ten copies. How funny that you call and ask about it, says Fredrik Paganus, librarian at Västerviksanstalten, to Godmorgon Världen.
Newly admitted prisoners ask for three books “in the same breath”, according to him.
– It's The Prince by Machiavelli, The Art of War by Sun Zi and 48 laws of power, says Fredrik Paganus.
“The Prince” is high on the top list of borrowed books at Kumla and Hall as well, the other two of the country's prisons that have their own librarian.
– Almost everyone has read it soon, considering how often I lend it out and how the books travel in here, says Fredrik Paganus to SR.
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