Ulla-Lena Lundberg

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Ulla-Lena Lundberg (2012)

Ulla-Lena Lundberg (born July 14, 1947 in Kökar , Åland ) is a Finnish-Swedish writer.

Life

Ulla-Lena Lundberg grew up as the child of a pastor's family on Kökar. Lundberg began to write as a teenager and published her experiences of stays as an exchange student in the USA and as a student in Japan . In 1976 Lundberg published a volume with information from the residents of her island of origin she interviewed. The island of Kökar is also the setting for her novels Kungens Anna and Ingens Anna . Lundberg lived for two years in the African states of Botswana , Zambia , Kenya and Tanzania , which was the source of several non-fiction books and novels. She condensed a four-month stay in Siberia in 1993 into an autobiographical travel report.

In 1985 she finished her studies at the Åbo Akademi with the diploma thesis Franciskus i Kökar on the settlement of Kökar. In 1986/87 she was invited to the University of Minnesota as a lecturer and writer in residence .

Lundberg was awarded the Runeberg Prize in 1998 for Regn and the Finlandia Prize in 2012 for Is , for which she had been nominated three times, in 1987 with Sand , 1989 with Leo and 2001 with Marsipan soldiers . In 1990 she was awarded the Thank You-for-the-Book medal for Leo . The Åbo Akademi awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1993.

The novel Is was the literary model for the opera Jää, which premiered in January 2019 .

Works (selection)

  • Utgångpunkt . Poetry. 1962
  • Strövtåg . Travel book. 1966
  • En advise om gränser . Travel book. 1968
  • Gaijin-utlänning i Japan . Travel book. 1970
  • Kökar . Report. 1976
  • Tre afrikanska consultants . Novellas. 1977
  • Öar i Africa inre . Essay. 1981
  • Kungens Anna . Novel. 1982
  • Ingens Anna . Novel. 1984
  • Franciskus i Kökar . Diploma thesis in social history. 1985
  • Sand . Novel. 1986
  • Leo . Novel. 1989
  • Stora världen . Novel. 1991
  • Siberia . Travel novel. 1993
    • Siberia. Self-portrait with wings . Translated from the Swedish by Karl-Ludwig Wetzig. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003
  • Everybody can önska sig . Novel. 1995
  • Regn . Novel. 1997
  • Marsipan soldiers . Novel. 2001
  • Männniskan och målaren . Åke Hellman's biography. 2005
  • (Mhrsg.): Hundra År i Gammelgård . Social history. 2006
  • Is . Novel. 2012
    • Ice cream . Translated from the Swedish by Karl-Ludwig Wetzig. Mare, Hamburg 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Fanizadeh : A special relationship of closeness , in: TAZ , June 21, 2014, p. 23
  2. ↑ a b c Gustaf Widén: Lundberg, Ulla-Lena ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Uppslagsverket Finland (sv) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uppslagsverket.fi
personal data
SURNAME Lundberg, Ulla-Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish-Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Kökar , Åland