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MICHAL BONCZA reports on an extraordinary memorial to victims of the Utoya massacre in Norway

The official memorials at the sites where 69 people were massacred by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik in Norway three years ago are to be created by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg next year.

He was recently selected from a short list which included British artist Jeremy Deller.

Central to the Dahlberg project is the extraordinary Memory Wound, a 3.5 metre wide fissure in the tip of the Sorbraten peninsula that overlooks the island of Utoya where the massacre took place.

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