AUTHOR TALK WITH LINNEA AXELSSON

Linnea Axelsson talks about her poetry collection Sjaunja.
Three fading Sami goddesses, a family, and a singing sea snail are some of the characters gathered in Linnea Axelsson's new poetry collection. Sjaunja is both a very natural area dominated by marshland and a Sami surname.

Linnea Axelsson was born in 1980 in Porjus, Norrbotten, but now lives in Stockholm. She studied humanities at Umeå University. In 2009 she made her debut with the novel Tvillingsmycket and in 2018 she published the acclaimed epic Ædnan, which was awarded the August Prize in 2018.