Linda Boström Knausgård was nominated for the August 2016 Prize for her semi-biographical novel Welcome to America. With October children, she takes one step closer to reality. The existence on the psyche, childhood and divorce from Karl Ove Knausgård is depicted in a weave of flashbacks.

In October, Linda Boström Knausgård occasionally addresses harsh criticism of psychiatry and electrical treatments, based on her own experiences over a longer period of time.

- You can't bring your own case in that situation, so it becomes a kind of abuse that can't be repaired either, she says in SVT's literature magazine Babel.

Factory treatment of mental illness

Boström Knausgård depicts the powerlessness of what it is like to be forcibly admitted to a psychiatric clinic. The room where the treatments are performed is similar to a factory.

- You sit and wait, you come into the room, and sleep down. Then you wake up a few hours later and don't know where you are. You don't know where you are, who you are, what you've done - you know nothing, says Boström Knausgård, and continues:

- I call it the factory because it's like a factory.

Lost entire time periods

In the factory, she is subjected to electrically induced seizures. The current her brain was exposed to has left permanent traces.

- Large time spans are gone and this is a real consequence of this treatment.

- It's an incredibly common side effect that you get a memory loss and this is nothing anyone would say.

Want to pay attention to problems

Writing the novel has been a way to recreate certain memories, but also a way to give voice to others. At the same time, the author does not want to turn into language pipes.

- I haven't written about this as a debate article, but you can at least understand what I think about it.

- Many people have had their lives ruined by this, but I do not know if they would let me be the one who speaks for them.

See the entire interview with Linda Boström Knausgård in Babel on Sunday in SVT2.