– It feels so great to be nominated by the Swedish Radio listening jury! It has been strongly touching for me to hear when they talked about the nominated books on radio during the week, says Lotta Lundberg.
She has sat down in his apartment in Berlin and listened to the radio discussions on the six books that were nominated by a group of critics.
– Listening jury has put so much reflective of each book, and they discuss them with seriousness and competence. It is great that books can take time. And so it is especially pleasing to have been appointed.
In the novel “Hour Zero” she weaves together three portraits of women during the 1900s. It is about Hedwig, who in postwar Berlin burdened by his guilt, Ingrid in the 2000s Swedish archipelago who doubt their marriage and adolescent Isa in the 1980s Uppsala, to manage its great wrath. The novel has been compared with Michel Cunningham’s “The Hours.”
– Both books are about three women, one of them is the author. They are faced with existential choices and their fates tangent to each other. One can say that I twisted structure to my book from the novel, says Lotta Lundberg.
But the stories are her own, inspired in part by the known radio journalist Cordelia Edvardssons fate. Lotta Lundberg remembers that as a child she heard her distinctive voice on the radio while growing up in Uppsala. But she points out, however, that the abslut is not a biography she wrote, but a fictional story about selecting and deselecting, that when everything is broken, it can thankfully turn.
– The three women’s destinies brushing against each other. Am I good enough, as a woman, wife, mother, there’s someone who can love me and what is the point of the whole thing are the themes of the novel deals with, she says.
Listen jury’s citation reads: “To she 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. “
Right now Lotta Lundberg not with someone new novel, without writing a little shorter texts. She says she needs to rest a little from its two year process of “Hour Zero” and the extensive research work, which stretches back even further. In contrast, she will embark on a literary tour of Germany with the introduction of Leipzig, when the book comes out in German next week.
– It shall also be translated into Norwegian and Macedonian. In Germany, the book has been compared with Dagerman’s authorship and that’s flattering.
For thirty years lived Lotta Lundberg in Uppsala and was a student here. Then she thought never to become a writer.
– It felt a bit like saying that it would be NHL pros, I thought.
A few years she lived in Stockholm, but now she enjoys in Berlin. The climate among other artists which is beneficial for her.
– I am not burdened by the history that Berlin has, I stimulated by it. What I am dealing with, questions about underlying guilt and responsibility have more presence here and is not as relevant in Sweden, she says.
Lotta Lundberg received the award at Angered Library in Gothenburg on Friday, which was broadcast live in P1. She is the twenty-second laureate of the Novel Prize and the prize money is SEK 50 000.
Previous winners include Beate Grumsrud, Jonas Brown and last year it was Kjell Westö.
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