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Norwegian-American author Siri Hustvedt in a conversation with Annika Norlin.

Siri Hustvedt, the poet and author from Minnesota with Norwegian roots, had her major international breakthrough in 2004 with the novel What I Loved. Her books have been translated into 29 languages.

Her latest novel, Memories of the Future, is a journey through time. An older author travels back through the decades to 1970s New York and meets her younger self as a young, unestablished new arrival to the city. She has come from the countryside with dreams of becoming an author, but is soon more fascinated by her crazy neighbour, Lucy Brite. It is a journey to the past that still has a great deal in common with her life today. Memories of the Future reflects on the balance between madness and rationality while depicting artistry, friendship, masculinity and femininity. 

Meet Siri Hustvedt in conversation with Annika Norlin, songwriter and artist in the projects Säkert! and Hello Saferide, as well as a journalist and former psychology student. She won Swedish Radio’s 2019 literature prize for the novel Mattan.

The conversation is arranged in cooperation with Nordstedts. Memories of the Future is translated by Dorothee Sporrong.