LAURA LINDSTEDT became a critical darling with her adoption-themed debut novel Scissors (Sakset, Teos 2007), which earned her a nomination for the Finlandia Prize, the country’s most prestigious literary honour. She is currently revising her Ph.D. thesis on French author Nathalie Sarraute. Lindstedt’s second novel Oneiron (Teos 2015) is a work of speculative fiction that takes place in the mysterious moments that follow one’s death, and earned Lindstedt’s the coveted 2015 Finlandia Prize.
Lindstedt’s latest novel My Friend Natalia, translated by the award-winning David Hackston, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in February 2021, and rights have been sold to 12 territories.
