Kim Ekemar

I've been fortunate with opportunities to travel the world, counting Mexico, France, Sweden and Spain as my home at one time or other. In the past, a good part of my life was dedicated to business ventures: an art gallery, an advertising agency and commodity trading, among others. 

My travels have taken me to faraway places and amazing situations. I arrived in Mongolia just as the revolution for independence from the USSR started. I have been taken up the Sepik river by crocodile hunters in Papua Guinea. I’ve climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya, gone horseback riding to where the Río Magdalena in Colombia begins, crossed the Australian desert, hiked the Inka trail the wrong direction in Peru, and much more. However, the experience with the most impact that I’ve lived through was to be arbitrarily jailed in a centre for torture in Paraguay during the Stroessner dictatorship, under the absurd accusation of being a terrorist. (More about this in my illustrated non-fiction book in Spanish about the dictator, "El Reino del Terror".)

During the past two decades, I've been focused on artistic expressions – painting, photography, design and architecture, but mainly on writing. The sources for the things I'm interested in writing about are the passions of people; places and customs that I've experienced around the world; and stories or situations from life that intrigue me.

absurd    afganistan    afghanistan    ak47    alexander dumas    alfredo stroessner    alone    anastasio somoza    anonymous    asesino    blind love    bullfight    cape horn    chance    chess    chinese    con artists    concentration camp    crime    critic    cuentos    cuentos cortos    death    deceit    detective    devil    dictadura    drama    drug abuse    drug addiction    evil    face transplant    fake your death    faking your own death    female sleuth    fraud    ghost story    golden wish    greed    greek gods    historias    horror    humiliation    indian ocean    ingenuity    irish poet    jazz    josef mengele    kalashnikov    labor camp    lockedroom mystery    logic    lost identity    lottery    lottery ticket    mafia    magical realism    malaysia    manipulacion    martin almada    mexico    money    movie production    murder    music    mystery murder    mythomaniac    narcotrafico    nazi    operacion condor    organized crime    palindrome    paper war    papua new guinea    paraguay    pastor coronel    prison escape    ptsd    ptsd after war    pun    punishment    rattling with sounds    revenge    richest man    richest man in the world    rock and roll    rock n roll    rocknroll    runaway train    russian mafia    russian mafia face transplant revenge    saxophone player    scam    selfmade millionaire    seven deadly sins    sharks    ship in the desert    short stories    sicopata    siete pecados    singer    soul    sounds    suitor    superstition    surprise    surprise twist    survival    survivor    suspenso    swiss banker    thriller    tortura    transplant    twist    victor lustig    viet nam    vietnam    war    war correspondent    winning ticket    woman sleuth    wordplay    world literature    world war 2