Hiidenkivi

Hiidenkivi, the Finnish-language magazine of culture, history, language and literature now has its own website. In order to access the whole publication, readers must register and also subscribe to the paper version of the magazine. But some of the articles are is available free of charge, and the site gives a good idea of the range of material on offer, including some items that are not in the current subscriber's version - this month, for example, discussions of the ideas and writings of Väinö Linna.

Seeing the dark of print

WhyTranslator's Lev Hrytsyuk has a link to a site that specializes in unpublishable books. The site asks:

What constitutes an unpublishable work? It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting; it could be a work of juvenilia or a style you've long since discarded; it could be a work that falls far outside the range of what you're best known for; it could be a guilty pleasure or it could simply be that the world judges it to be awful, but you think is quite good. We've all got a folder full of things that would otherwise never see the light of day.

In the field of Nordic translation one could think of a fair number of works that might fall into this category. How about the Collected Poems of Arvid Mörne, for example? Or even - The Unknown Soldier?