tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post3392048244241734333..comments2024-02-03T10:27:22.640+00:00Comments on Nordic Voices in Translation: Kadri Kõusaar: "Free Rise" (excerpt)David McDuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-73956959121400516522009-06-23T13:58:29.796+01:002009-06-23T13:58:29.796+01:00The problem with Swedish Book Review, Books from F...The problem with <em>Swedish Book Review, Books from Finland</em> and similar publications is that many of the readers are already involved in some way with Scandinavian literature. Publishers are potential readers as well, but may be too busy to pore over each issue.<br /><br />It should indeed not take almost 30 years for a book to percolate through to the English language. It would be Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-74564884886680038272009-06-22T07:10:45.567+01:002009-06-22T07:10:45.567+01:00I still wouldn't see it as a failure - after a...I still wouldn't see it as a failure - after all, think of all those hundreds of <i>Swedish Book Review</i>, <i>Books from Finland</i> and FILI "excerpts" and "synopses" which are meant to to interest UK and US publishers, but apparently don't, at the time, anyway. I think the process is really one of slow percolation - it often takes years for a Nordic book to reach aDavid McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-78426066081977814902009-06-21T23:23:44.486+01:002009-06-21T23:23:44.486+01:00I didn't mean failure in the sense that the bo...I didn't mean failure in the sense that the book itself or the translation was crap, but failure in the sense that I couldn't interest any British or American publisher. Maybe the "clever blonde" aspect was off-putting to some. Some like their blondes dumb. (By the way, the other novel I haven't managed to sell to a publisher was written by a closet gay. It takes all sorts Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-71651340414337847402009-06-21T16:43:26.395+01:002009-06-21T16:43:26.395+01:00Come now, Eric, it's by no means a failure. It...Come now, Eric, it's by no means a failure. It's quite entertaining, in fact. <br /><br />I've removed that nasty preformatted text again, as I don't see that it adds anything to the general aesthetic effect. :-)David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.com