Monday 11 November marks the start of the now traditional Nordic Library Week in all of the Nordic countries as well as in the Baltic States and north-western Russia. Designed to bring a little intellectual illumination to the darkness of autumn, the week of reading pleasure is being held for the 16th time. The theme of this year's event is 'Winter in the Nordic countries'. One of the week's biggest events in Estonia will be a meet-and-greet with the renowned and award-winning Finnish-Swedish author Ulla-Lena Lundberg at Harju County Library in Keila on Wednesday 13 November.
Born in 1947, Lundberg has published over 20 works, including novels, radio dramas, travel guides and poetry. She is an ethnologist by profession, and from 1994-1999 worked as a professor of art at the Turku Academy – of which she is now an honorary doctor. Marked out as an author by her curiosity and extensive field of vision, she has spent a lot of time in places as diverse as the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Africa and Siberia.
Lundberg has received a number of prestigious literary awards. In 2012 she won the Finlandia prize for her novel Ice, for which she was also nominated for this year's Nordic Council's Literature Prize. In fact, she has been among the nominees for this award an impressive five times.
Ice is soon to be published in Estonian by Eesti Raamat, translated by Tõnis Arnover. Also due for publication as part of the 'Library of Creation' series is Anu Saluääre's translation of Lundberg's Siberia: a Lofty Self-Portrait.
Literary enthusiasts will get the chance to meet Lundberg at Harju County Library in Keila on Wednesday 13 November at 15:00. The event is being organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Estonia in association with the Finnish Institute and Harju County Library.
More information about Nordic Library Week is available here.
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Lundberg has received a number of prestigious literary awards. In 2012 she won the Finlandia prize for her novel Ice, for which she was also nominated for this year’s literary award of the Nordic Council of Ministers. In fact, she has been among the nominees for this award an impressive five times.
Ice is soon to be published in Estonian by Eesti Raamat, translated by Tõnis Arnover. Also due for publication as part of the ‘Library of Creation’ series is Anu Saluääre’s translation of Lundberg’s Siberia: a Lofty Self-Portrait.
Literary enthusiasts will get the chance to meet Lundberg at Harju County Library in Keila on Wednesday 13 November at 15:00. The event is being organised by the Estonian office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in association with the Finnish Institute and Harju County Library.
More information about Nordic Library Week is available
