Author Lisa Bjärbo has written a new short story exclusively for Dagens Nyheter. The piece carries the title 'The Day the Bird Must Die'. DN publishes it alongside a fresh interview with the writer. In the conversation, Bjärbo talks about how hard it is to leave your old school class behind. The social game that plays out in those years, she suggests, keeps shaping people long afterwards. Readers can move straight from her fiction to her own account of how such themes take shape on the page. The story exists because the paper commissioned it, not because it was pulled from an existing collection. Together, the text and the interview give a short-form look at her writing.