Nordic Library Week to bring renowned Finnish-Swedish author to Estonia

Monday 11 November marks the start of the now traditional Nordic Library Week in all of the Nordic countries as well as in the Baltic States and north-western Russia. Designed to bring a little intellectual illumination to the darkness of autumn, the week of reading pleasure is being held for the 16th time. The theme of this year's event is 'Winter in the Nordic countries'. One of the week's biggest events in Estonia will be a meet-and-greet with the renowned and award-winning Finnish-Swedish author Ulla-Lena Lundberg at Harju County Library in Keila on Wednesday 13 November.

Born in 1947, Lundberg has published over 20 works, including novels, radio dramas, travel guides and poetry. She is an ethnologist by profession, and from 1994-1999 worked as a professor of art at the Turku Academy – of which she is now an honorary doctor. Marked out as an author by her curiosity and extensive field of vision, she has spent a lot of time in places as diverse as the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Africa and Siberia.