Amina Elmi (Denmark)
Amina Elmi was born in Somalia in 1994 and came to Denmark at the age of three, where she grew up in Aalborg. Elmi made her book debut in 2023 with the critically acclaimed poetry collection Barbar [Tavshedens objekt] (Barbarian [Object of Silence], not translated into English).
Robin Van de Walle (Norway)
Robin Van de Walle was born in 1994 in Belgium and is currently living in Bergen. He debuted in 2022 with the autofictional novel Han, Solo, about love, queer identity and the eternal search for a home and a belonging. The book was well received in the Norwegian press.
Adrian Perera (Finland)
Adrian Perera, born 1986 made his debut in 2017 with the poetry collection White Monkey, awarded the Swedish Yle Literature Prize, where the reader meets a woman from Sri Lanka who is trying to create a home for herself in a new country. After three novels, Perera returned to poetry this spring with the book Jag firar inte i år (I’m not celebrating this year, not translated into English).
Hilda Forss (Finland)
Hilda Forss (1987-) has a background as a graphic designer. She currently works for Svenska litteratursällskapet (Society of Swedish Literature in Finland) and is pursuing a doctorate in Nordic literature at the University of Helsinki, with a thesis on digital technology in Nordic poetry.
The symposium ”Å leve i flere kulturer. Å skrive litteratur på et adoptert språk” has received funding from:
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