I don’t want to be an inme anymore

Birger Sellin, autistic and mute since the age of two, began writing with the help of a computer when he was 17: initially just individual letters of the alphabet, which gradually turned into unusual, fascinating texts of unexpected beauty. “Here is a struggle for language. Here someone in pain shows me what writing really means,” writes Peter Bichsel about Sellin’s book, which continues to find new readers every day.