The Nordic Literature Week dedicate three evenings to stories, literature and food at Pub Stallhagen. Take the chance to eat fantastic food and listen to interesting discussions about literature and storytelling of the Åland islands. The evenings celebrate literature of Åland as well as its oral storytelling tradition. The event is a part of the Åland 100 celebration and the Nordic literature week. The theme for Nordic Literature Week is "Dreams and Longing in the Nordics".

Saturday November 20th, 7 pm 

Participants: Ulrika Gustafsson, Carina Karlsson and Sebastian Johans. 

Carina Karlsson and Ulrika Gustafsson talk about the author Sally Salminen, her classic novel Katrina and factual role models and fictional heroines. Salminen lived a life much different from her heroine. But that did not stop her from letting Katrina experience the predetermined life of a woman as a prison, exactly as Sally herself experienced it. And none of them were a “good girl”. But where Katrina was forced to stay on her islet, Sally did get away. And while hundreds of thousands of women have identified themselves with the heroine of the novel, Katrina, and gotten validation that their lives count as well, the author as a living role model has showed that also a girl from the Åland islands can become a writer. Carina Karlsson is the author of Märket (2019) and Ulrika Gustafsson is the author of the biography of Sally Salminen Min ljusa stad.  

Sebastian Johans was born in 1978 on the Åland islands. Currently living in Uppsala, Sweden, he works as cultural writer and art critic at Dagens nyheter and Borås tidning. Broarna is his debut novel which was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2021. 

Wherer? Pub Stallhagen
When? November 20th, 7 pm

Photo: Johan Karrento, Severus Tenenbaum, Matilda Saul

The evening will be filmed and streamed on Åland 100's Youtube.