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Laura Lindstedt’s critically-acclaimed, Finlandia Prize-winning novel, Oneiron, was published in Italy in late November 2016 to some wonderful reviews, and a warm reception for Laura, who visited her publishers in Rome in early December.
To launch 2017 – which will also see the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish publications of Oneiron – Laura gave an interview to Italian literary journal, Alfabeta2, excerpted below with the latest praise pull-quotes:
“I believe that a strong, passionate book will find its audience, no matter what the genre is. Even though there are lots of cultural allusions in Oneiron, the play with genres etc., my purpose was to make the text as organic as possible. A reader doesn’t have to grasp every intertext I’ve put there.” […]
“For me, when I write, the novel signifies a laboratory of ideas. It’s almost literally the place of thinking. As an activity, writing and reading are quite similar in this respect. They both create a specific temporality, favourable for difficult questions.”
– Laura Lindstedt, as told to Marco Dotti for Alfabeta2, Italy
“A visionary book.” – Marie Claire Italia
“Laura Lindstedt’s construction is, specifically, about death. In this way, Dante Alighieri and Marcel Proust are subtly invoked.” –Daniele Abbiati, il Giornale newspaper, Italy (transl. Irene Sorrentino / Riitta Ammunet)
Publishers of Oneiron:
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
WORLD ENGLISH, Oneworld
BULGARIA, Faber
CZECH REPUBLIC, Argo
DENMARK, Rosinante
FRANCE, Gallimard
HUNGARY, Scolar
ITALY, Elliot Edizioni
LITHUANIA, Versus Aureus
NORWAY, Forlaget Oktober
POLAND, W.A.B. Foksal
ROMANIA, Editura Paralela 45
SWEDEN, Norstedts
Prizes & nominations:
Finlandia Prize winner 2015
Toisinkoinen Prize winner 2015
Runeberg Prize nominee 2015
Flame Bearer Prize nominee 2015
