tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post1158411710160662926..comments2024-02-03T10:27:22.640+00:00Comments on Nordic Voices in Translation: Standing TramsDavid McDuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-81802304244827583222009-03-15T13:04:00.000+00:002009-03-15T13:04:00.000+00:00Tiina Laats is now called Tiina Randviir, and is t...Tiina Laats is now called Tiina Randviir, and is the editor of Estonian Literary Magazine. She works at the Estonian institute in Tallinn, and is always helpful with information about Estonian literature.Rod Bradburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09283318667300852510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-44261738532379321402009-03-15T09:13:00.000+00:002009-03-15T09:13:00.000+00:00Thanks for your comments, Eric and Steve. Welcome ...Thanks for your comments, Eric and Steve. <BR/><BR/>Welcome to Nordic Voices in Translation, Steve. I think that what we are trying to do here, in the aftermath of what has turned out to be a particularly difficult period in SELTA's existence, is to take stock of the current Nordic literary translation scene on both sides of the pond. It's time that SELTA and STiNA developed closer ties, as we David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-11338648792726536512009-03-15T02:12:00.000+00:002009-03-15T02:12:00.000+00:00As the perfect coda to the way the Soviet Bloc rel...As the perfect coda to the way the Soviet Bloc related to consumer goods, I've just watched, on BBC2, the rather moving German blackish comedy called "Goodbye Lenin!", set when the Berlin Wall fell. Where the consumer goods come in is when a mother, who was in a coma during the period the Wall fell, is of such fragile health when she does come to that she has to be tricked by her family into Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-5229749099635417482009-03-15T01:04:00.000+00:002009-03-15T01:04:00.000+00:00Excellent excerpt, David, and I welcome this chanc...Excellent excerpt, David, and I welcome this chance to (re)establish contact. We met briefly in 1983 at Lillehammer. If I were still running Fjord Press I'd publish this, no problem. With my limited knowledge of Finland through my wife Tiina Nunnally, this struck a chord of familiarity. I'd love to read the rest of it. Are you submitting anywhere and do you have a handle on the rights situation?<Reg / Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07539868524489903682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-57086243189188253802009-03-14T20:20:00.000+00:002009-03-14T20:20:00.000+00:00This excerpt is important because it highlights hu...This excerpt is important because it highlights huge differences in mentality during the Cold War. Scandinavia and the Baltics are neighbours, but the mentality gulf was deep and wide - unlike the Gulf of Finland!<BR/><BR/>On the one hand, there were the rich Western countries of Finland and Sweden, whose citizens had everything materially and could travel where and when they pleased. On the Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.com