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Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa

2004 Sigge Eklund novel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ10470114 ↗
Source-derived summary

Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa (lit. It Is 1988 and It Has Just Started Snowing) is a 2005 Sigge Eklund novel.

Plot

Sigge Eklund discovers 35 old cassette tapes from childhood. Listening to the tape, he remember things happening back then, during the 1980s. A snowy day back in 1988, his parents divorced. Earlier, Sigge used to idolize his father but now he begins to view him in a different way.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa” as 2004 Sigge Eklund novel. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where precis, börjat and snöa can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2004 Sigge Eklund novel. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10470114. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 2005.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa primary sources, Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa archive and precis research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.