When you lose someone, you try to hold onto them. You might wear their old clothes (and they might be rather too big). You might read things they’ve written (even if it’s just underlining or marginal notes in books they’ve…
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Unquiet
Tagged with: books, death, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Bergman, Linn Ullmann, Liv Ullmann, Norway, Norwegian, Thilo Reinhard, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Love
This PEN award winner is indeed about love, and distance. I haven’t read such a desperately sad story for a long, long time. Like Romeo and Juliet, it’s the just-too-lateness of it all that is the most tragic. But this…
Tagged with: Archipelago Books, books, Hanne Ørstavik, Love, Martin Aitken, Norwegian, PEN Literary Award, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
The House in Norway
The artist has her own house, and feels invaded when other people move in – how is she going to work, now? Nordic people need their space, and women need room of their own to create. The forest grows right…
Tagged with: books, Charlotte Barslund, Norwegian, The House in Norway, Translation, Vigdis Hjorth, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, translation, Women in Translation Month
Knausgaard: which translation?
Knausgård’s Min Kamp/My Struggle series are a publishing sensation and I had to see what all the fuss was about. Not being able to read them in Norwegian, I had a choice of four translations to choose from: English, Polish, German…
Tagged with: Don Bartlett, Finnish, German, Gombrowicz, Iwona Zimicka, Karl Ove Knausgård, Katriina Huttunen, Norwegian, Paul Berf, Polish, Swedish
Posted in books, international, literature, translation
Posted in books, international, literature, translation
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