Ulla-Lena Lundberg at this year’s round table
Photo: Cata Portin, Förlaget M Today, there are less than three weeks left until this year’s Kastelholm Peace Talks and we are pleased to announce that the award-winning author Ulla-Lena Lundberg is one of the participants in the round table discussion at Alandica starting at 5 pm, where she, together with other invited guests, comments on this year’s castle talks and takes the discussion further on this year’s theme “The future and us”. Ulla-Lena Lundberg was born in Kökar in 1947 and grew up in various parts of Swedish Finland with strong ties to Åland. She has been active as a writer since her early debut in 1962 and has been a freelance radio broadcaster from a young age, a guest writer at the University of Minnesota in 1986-87 and a Finnish professor of art from 1999-2004. She is best known for several award-winning novels. These include Regn (1986), Leo (1989), Marsipansoldaten (2001), Is (2012) and Lyser och lågar (2022), but she has also written a great deal of documentary literature, such as Kökar (1976), Öar i Afrikas indre (1981) and Siberia. Ulla-Lena has early in life been interested in social issues, politics and peace work through long stays abroad […]