Category: literature

City Hall Litt: Anna Hallberg

City Hall Litt: Anna Hallberg

On March 30, 2027, Therése Granwald and poet Anna Hallberg will meet in Lund for a conversation about the possibilities of poetry, language and writing. Hallberg is one of Sweden's leading contemporary poets,…
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Haiku: The world's shortest poem form

Haiku: The world's shortest poem form

In this workshop you will get an overview of the history of haiku and the different Japanese concepts that belong to haiku. As a participant, you will then try writing different…
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Nordic Light: Lea Korsgaard

Nordic Light: Lea Korsgaard

In the winter darkness of the first day of the year, Lea Korsgaard makes a list. She has decided to see all of Denmark's 64 butterfly species in one year before they disappear. The hunt for…
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Nordic Light: Kjell Westö

Nordic Light: Kjell Westö

One of Finland's great storytellers celebrates 40 years as a writer this year. Now his new novel Coda is out. Some young radical artists want to change the art and cultural life of Helsinki in the 80s,…
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Nordic Light: Simon Sorgenfrei on Open Your Hearts

Nordic Light: Simon Sorgenfrei on Open Your Hearts

In the book Open Your Hearts: The Story of How Islam Became Sweden's Second Largest Religion and the Sweden Democrats the Country's Second Largest Party, religious scholar Simon Sorgenfrei portrays contemporary Sweden. The book spans…
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Nordic light: Pajtim Statovci

Nordic light: Pajtim Statovci

Finnish author Pajtim Statovci was born in Kosovo in 1990. His family fled the war and came to Finland when he was two years old. He has had a meteoric literary career, his…
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Nordic Light: Johan Erséus on Amelia Posse

Nordic Light: Johan Erséus on Amelia Posse

The eccentric Countess Amelie Posse ran a secret club during World War II. She came from Maryhill outside Landskrona and traveled around Skåne during the war, meeting like-minded people and founding branches…
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Nordic Light: Tone Schunnesson

Nordic Light: Tone Schunnesson

Tone Schunesson's new novel Ultravåld is about sibling bonds and parents who go berserk. In the late 1990s, siblings Jarl and Eddie grow up in a run-down castle in Skåne.…
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Henrik Ranby: “Vehicles, gaze and landscape”

Henrik Ranby: “Vehicles, gaze and landscape”

Traditionally, the Book History Society's Days of the Old Book are arranged in the City Hall in Lund with a number of second-hand bookshops, publishers and bookbinders as exhibitors. Books, hand-bound bookbindings, maps, small prints, graphic sheets, artists' books...
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Antiquarian book fair

Antiquarian book fair

Traditionally, the Book History Society's Days of the Old Book are arranged in the City Hall in Lund (but this time on the ground floor) with a number of second-hand bookshops, publishers and bookbinders as exhibitors. Books, hand-bound bookbindings, maps,…
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Vipeholm, the experiments and my uncle

Vipeholm, the experiments and my uncle

When you were an idiot: Vipeholm, the experiments and my uncle is a merciless exposure of a place and a time, where people were reduced to numbers, codes and “material”. With its…
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Story time

Story time

Come and listen to fairy tales in the Fairy Tale Cabinet! More information about the fairy tales and what ages they are suitable for can be found on the library's website: Fairy tale hour: Reading aloud. Limited number of places, pre-registration to folkbiblioteken@lund.se.…
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Storytime: Reading aloud

Storytime: Reading aloud

On Tuesdays we have read-alouds in the library. Come and join us in the magical world of picture books. For children of preschool age. Free entry, no pre-registration required.  
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