Linn Ullmann - Nordische Literaturtage

In the organizer's words:

"What I remember is -" She is 16 years old, wandering through the Parisian winter night, unable to find her hotel again. On a piece of paper is the address of the fashion photographer, 30 years her senior, who happened to notice her in New York. Against her mother's wishes, she followed him to Paris. Almost 40 years later, in the midst of the pandemic and a deep depression, the narrator struggles with writing: "How do experiences live on, not as memories, but through forgetting?" How does she bring the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983 together in one body?

Following on from "Die Unruhigen", "Mädchen, 1983" (Luchterhand; translation: Paul Berf) is another equally haunting, self-reflective and poetic work that digs even deeper. Both books were nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and are part of an emerging trilogy about memory, anger and desire. Her first novel "The Liar" was published in 1999. After years in New York, Linn Ullmann now lives in her native Oslo and teaches creative writing.

Price information:

€ 16,-/12,-/ Plusticket 0,- (registration at tickets@literaturhaus-hamburg.de) € 6,- Streaming