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Måns Mosessson awarded Suicide Zero’s Dare to Share Award
Måns Mosesson has been awarded Dare to Share’s honorary award 2022 by the non-profit organization Suicide Zero for his book Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii. The award has since 2015 been handed out by Suicide Zero to journalists, editors, presenters, and writers who have produced outstanding work on the theme suicide. The motivation reads as follows:
“Author and journalist Måns Mosesson depicts in Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii, a young man’s quest to make his way in a music world that knows no restraints. Through interviews, text messages, email conversations and careful research, Måns Mosesson paints a story about the joy of creating and a young man’s strong drive and longing for recognition and success. Simultaneously, it’s a story of anxiety and anguish reflected through the dark underbelly of the performance society, the music industry and success. As a reader, you want to stop the course of events in its tracks and support the parent’s fight to have Tim get off what is a speeding train. Mosesson’s portrait is like a punch to the gut and a call to action to have all of us take mental health issues seriously as well as help each other safeguard the space needed for recovery, and to be true to ourselves.”