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On the occasion of Valentine's Day, the Embassy of Sweden and the Institute of Reportage invited you to listen to a conversation about loneliness and love in the Swedish edition. The meeting took place on February 14, 2021. In a collection of reports, essays and conversations, Tubylewicz and her characters reflect on what loneliness is, what it can be, what scares us about it and what makes us happy, why we miss it, why we run away from it, how it changes us, what challenges it poses to us. There are many subjective voices and perspectives here, complete universality and a mine of knowledge about cultural differences. At the same time, "Lonely as a Swede?" is another groundbreaking book about our neighbors from across the Baltic Sea. For Tubylewicz, Sweden is a mirror in which she looks at Poland and herself, and Sweden is said to be a paradise for loners. Is it true? The author talks about Swedish singles, families and individualism, as well as about Swedish spirituality, which is best realized in solitude in the bosom of nature. Together with her interlocutors, she comes to the conclusion that it is easier for introverts to find satisfaction in life, wonders what the loneliness of a journalist fighting for subjectivity in a polarized reality is, and why omnipresent tolerance does not protect anorexics from loneliness in a crowd. In "Lonely as a Swede?" there is a place for the loneliness of Pippi Långstrump and the Nobel Prize-winning poet who suddenly ran out of words. The author tells not only about the many different perspectives on loneliness, but also about her travels in search of landscapes of loneliness. A poetic and visually beautiful complement to this story are the atmospheric photos of her son Daniel Tubylewicz from such picturesque places as Fårö, Gotland, Österlen and Bohuslän.