Katarina Taikon
Katarina Taikon -Langhammer ( born July 29, 1932 in Örebro Almby as Catherine Mary, † 30 December 1995 Ytterhogdal, community Härjedalen ) was a Swedish author and actress from the Roma people. She lived alternately in Henriksdalsberget and Nacka.
Katarina Taikon was very known for her autobiographical children's books with the Roma girls Katitzi as the main character, with whom she went to the Swedish schools to achieve a change in the handling of Swedish society with Rome. Your total of 13 Katitzi books have been translated into several languages. They are available in Norwegian, Danish, French, German, Hungarian and Czech. Only in 2008 the first published translation of one of their Katizi books in Romani. In 1979 a Swedish television series Katitzi was produced as the main person.
Taikon was very active in the debate on the rights of the Swedish Roma. Like most Roma of her generation she had never allowed to go to school and first learned the age of 26 reading and writing when she was already married to his second wife and had two daughters. At 15, she played the lead role in the ten-minute short film " Uppbrott " by Arne Sucksdorff. During this time, she reached a divorce from her 19 -year-old man who cheated on her, had beaten and raped by the supreme court of the Swedish Rome ( "kris "). She is a sister of actress and silversmith Rosa Taikon.
Katarina Taikon died after 14 years in a coma as the result of brain damage she had suffered from an accident.
The first biography of Katarina Taikon was written by freelance journalist Lawen Mohtadi: " The dag jag blir fri - En bok om Katarina Taikon " Nature & Culture, Stockholm 2012, ISBN 978-91-27-13279-5, 195 pages.
Works
In the Swedish original:
- Zigenerska. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1963
- Zigenare är vi. Tides, Stockholm 1967
- Dikter 1968
- Katitzi. Zigenaren, Tyresö 1969
- * Niki in 1970
- Zigenare. Nature & Culture, Stockholm 1970
- Katitzi och Swing. Gidlunds, Stockholm 1970
- Katitzi rymmer. Gidlunds, Stockholm 1971
- Katitzi i ormgropen. Gidlunds, Stockholm 1971
- Katitzi, Pink och Paul.Zigenaren, Stockholm, 1972
- Katitzi i Stockholm. Tai - Long 1973
- Lump - Katitzi och Nicke. Tai - Long 1974
- Katitzi i skolan. Tai - Long 1975
- Katitzi Z- 1234. Tai - Long 1976
- Hur blev det sen då, Katitzi? 1977
- Katitzi barnbruden. Tai - Long 1977
- Katitzi på flykt. Tai - Long 1978
- Raja, zigenerskan 1979
- Katitzi i Gamla stan 1979
- Uppbrott 1980
- Katitzi commercial hem 1981
- Katitzi, det brinner 1981
- Förlåt att vi sturgeon! (together with Thomas Hammarbarg ) Om zigenska flyktingar, PAN / Norstedts, Stockholm 1970
German Translations:
- Vol 1: Katitzi, The life of a gypsy girl in Sweden
- Vol 2: On the run
- Vol 3: Daughter d wind
- Vol 4: Katitzi flees
- Vol 5: Katitzi, Pink, and Paul
- Vol 6: Katitzi in Stockholm
- Vol 7: Katitzi and Lump - Nicke
- Vol 8: Katitzi in school
- Vol 9: Z -1234
- Vol 10: The Child Marriage
- Vol 11: On the Run
- Vol 12: In the old town
- Vol 13: Departure