Küldetéstudat, értékőrzés és őszinteség. A 80 éves Bengt Pohjanen visszatekintése
Mission, Value Preservation and Honesty – An interview with Bengt Pohjanen –

Summary/Abstract: In this study I publish the Hungarian translation of my interview with Bengt Pohjanen, the most outstanding representative of the Meänkieli language and literature. I also analyze the most important issues that were discussed – the writer’s calling, the concept of minority literature, the difficulties he encountered in his career as a writer, and thoughts concerning the future of his native language. During the past fifteen years, along which I have followed and researched Pohjanen’s activity, I have made several oral interviews with him, but this time I sent him my questions in written form, and he also answered me in writing. Pohjanen’s life as a writer, as a public figure and his everyday life form a unit in which everything is connected to everything, and his most important aim is to unveil the truth and to utter it; at the same time to acknowledge his own role in a surrounding where he is not understood.

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