A conversation about Sara Lidman's lifelong commitment to the forest and her fight for sustainability, regarding both people and nature.
Ever since Sara Lidman had 'a love affair with a spruce tree' as a child, she was deeply committed to nature and a staunch defender of its rights. She criticized the modernity in which man's alienation from nature was a prerequisite and insisted that everything in creation belongs together.
Sverker Sörlin is a historian of ideas, a multi-award-winning author and one of Sweden's leading voices on climate and research issues. He was born in Åsele and is a professor of environmental history at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has written more than 40 books and was awarded the August Prize in 2004. In the summer of 2022, he made an appreciated summer talk in P1. His doctoral thesis Framtidslandet, published in 1988, is now published in a new edition. It tells about the view of Norrland, its resources and people, and has many parallels to today.
Participants:
Sverker Sörlin, author, historian of ideas and professor of environmental history.
Enar Nordvik - bureaucrat, architect, doctor of wood technology and member of the Sara Lidman Society.
Discussion leader: Tora von Platen, dramaturge and acting artistic director.
In collaboration with Skellefteå Municipality/City Library and the Sara Lidman Society
