tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post2819735071954592935..comments2024-02-03T10:27:22.640+00:00Comments on Nordic Voices in Translation: Swedish Writers at EIBF, 2009David McDuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-6570796531178023602009-05-13T20:11:00.000+01:002009-05-13T20:11:00.000+01:00Eric, I've got bad news for you. From time to ...Eric, I've got bad news for you. From time to time I read the online edition of "Östgöta Correspondenten", the local paper I used to read in my Linköping days, and I see that local boy Mons Kallentoft is an established writer of "deckare" who is currently working on his third book about Kommissarie Malin Fors "som löser brutala mord på östgötaslätten".<br /><br /Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974455708823618330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-30950157205877831112009-05-13T14:11:00.000+01:002009-05-13T14:11:00.000+01:00The link to the Guarian obituary of Elias Bredsdor...The link to the Guarian obituary of Elias Bredsdorff is <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/aug/14/guardianobituaries.obituaries" REL="nofollow">here</A>.David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-73461808889587692502009-05-13T13:56:00.000+01:002009-05-13T13:56:00.000+01:00I only knew Bredsdorff's name as the author of the...I only knew Bredsdorff's name as the author of the definitive biography of Hans Christian Andersen. Which reminds me that in my 3rd year at university I shared digs with a visiting Dane who baffled me once by talking about the well-known writer José Andersen. I couldn't think who this apparently Spanish-Danish hybrid was. Only found out much later that HC is pronounced like José in Danish.<br /><Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974455708823618330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-2779687792918871312009-05-13T09:41:00.000+01:002009-05-13T09:41:00.000+01:00Of the bouquinisterie Harry mentions, I note the L...Of the bouquinisterie Harry mentions, I note the Lëtzebuergesch book (Lët's Speak Lëtzebuergesch"?) and the name Elias Bredsdorff. I remember Bredsdorff from 1972, when he came to UEA to talk about "balla^s". The ^ represents his glottal-stop rendering of the word "ballad", even in English. During that same time, we UEA Scandinavianists also met Göran Printz-Påhlsson, who emerged from his rooms Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-40189907984177226172009-05-11T15:31:00.000+01:002009-05-11T15:31:00.000+01:00The only poet specifically mentioned in the SBR is...The only poet specifically mentioned in the SBR is "Swedish-Ugandan poet Johannes Anyuru". Out of the eight Swedish writers pencilled in for the EIBF, I would say that Mankell is the least interesting.<br /><br />Another bookish event in Edinburgh is the Christian Aid booksale at St. Andrew's and St. George's church in George Street. It's an annual event in the month of May and is always hyped upHarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974455708823618330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-79140059106592133752009-05-11T10:44:00.000+01:002009-05-11T10:44:00.000+01:00I'm cynical about the obsession that the British b...I'm cynical about the obsession that the British book trade has with bestselling thrillers from ScandalNavelia. For me it doesn't have to be only poetry, but also general (i.e. normal) novels, which are not books that follow the trend of police series, which, after all, TV can do much better if you want gore, violence and murder most foul. Gently does it, so to speak.<br /><br />Subtlety, Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-28223335407830656402009-05-11T09:55:00.000+01:002009-05-11T09:55:00.000+01:00>> I'd wager that Henning Mankell will g...>> I'd wager that Henning Mankell will get the biggest audience.<<<br /><br />Well, I hope they make room for some Swedish poets, too.David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.com