Lotta Lundberg is the winner of the Swedish Radio Novel Prize 2015 – Swedish Radio

Swedish Radio Novel Prize 2015 awarded Lotta Lundberg novel Hour zero. Listening jury’s citation reads:

“To her with irresistible brilliance of language and presentation depicted the search for inner cold, external rules and boundless love. This year’s novel laureate has exposed the deep divide between who you are and who you want to be. The circle is closed, she’s the goal. “

Lotta Lundberg is the twenty-second laureate of the Novel Prize and the prize money is SEK 50 000.

Lotta Lundberg received the award at tonight’s Novel Award ceremony broadcast live on P1 from Angered Library in Gothenburg.

– It is so incredibly touching when wise people have taken the time to reflect on something that I have worked with so far, says Lotta Lundberg.

– The novel is a form showing where the three women’s destinies are intertwined in a virtuoso manner, says Roger Svedberg, a member of this year’s Listening Judges who appointed Hour zero as the winner of Swedish Novel Prize 2015th

This year Listens Jury consisted of Taina Luodelahti, Sofia Oldin Cederwall, Roger Svedberg, Malin Magnusson, Joakim Nordqvist, Nils Johan Nilsson and Sayna Mostofizadeh.