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 and travelling since the 1960s, especially in the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Zambia, Botswana, Tanzania and Kenya. During perestroika in 1989-1994 she made four long trips to Siberia.
