Axel Lindén explains why he left his job as a lecturer in Stockholm to become a sheep farmer
Axel Lindén is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot’s knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour. On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd chronicles his Sisyphean struggle to move from “newbie” sheep farmer in search of a sustainable good life to “real farmer” – “a grump who keeps to himself.”
In 2010 he ditched his day job as a literary studies lecturer in Stockholm, rejected the ills of consumerism, pulled his three children out of kindergarten and, with his somewhat reluctant lawyer-wife in tow, embarked on a sheep-rearing “project”, possibly long term, possibly not. Either way, Lindén, then 46, “wanted out” of the city and unethical consumerism and into nature.
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