International Authors' Stage: Sara Stridsberg (SE) in conversation with Lilian Munk Rösing
Experience the critically acclaimed author Sara Stridsberg when she is a guest at International Authors' Stage for a conversation about love and hope, but also failure and family trauma.
I come from a family where nothing ever ends. We're ripped apart and fall apart and commit crimes and take our own lives, but nothing ever changes, we drag all those who were once our family with us into the future like on a giant barge.
– Sara Stridsberg, Farewell to Panic Beach
With her current novel Farewell to Panic Beach, Sara Stridsberg, inspired by her own family history, explores how tragedy and trauma can haunt a family across generations – and how great love and longing for memories of the past can exist at the same time.
This evening you can experience Stridsberg for a conversation about Farewell to Panic Beach and the broader themes of memory, language, family and gender which characterize her writing.
A journey to the bottom of darkness
Sara Stridsberg is known for her sensual and poetic writing style, where she often mixes fact and fiction, lived life and literary fantasy in a dreamy collage-like form.
Now she once again distinguishes herself as one of the Nordic countries' most prominent authors with her magnificent and poignant family portrait in Farewell to Panic Beach. Danish reviewers highlight, among other things, her ability to depict human darkness and hope with great empathy and care.
"There are not many authors who, like Sara Stridsberg, can make the journey to the bottom of darkness so completely hopeless and empty of all illusions and yet from start to finish be driven by the protagonist's love for his family and a tenacious notion that it is never too late to shed some of the darkness," writes Thomas Thura in the newspaper Information.
Cast
Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg (b. 1972) is one of Sweden's most acclaimed and award-winning authors. She had her international breakthrough with the novel Drømmefakultetet, for which she received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2007. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages, and she is a former member of the Swedish Academy (2016-2018).
Lilian Munk Rösing
Lilian Munk Rösing (b. 1967) is a lecturer in literature at the University of Copenhagen and a long-time literary critic at the daily newspaper Politiken, where she has also reviewed Stridsberg's writing. Rösing has published both fiction and essays and has worked as a literary translator since 2012.
The event is part of the series International Authors' Stage
Photo: Malthe Ivarsson / Det Kgl. Bibliotek
Meet the greatest authors of the time from all over the world for in-depth conversations in The Black Diamond's beautiful event hall, the Queen's Hall. International Authors' Stage was founded in 2008, and has since hosted more than 150 authors from around the world.
