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there was this review in the new yorker recently of a norwegian short story writer, and she was compared to lydia davis - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/a-norwegian-master-of-the-short-story

i love this thread

Two new Dag Solstads into English next May: 'Armand V' and 'T Singer'

Anyone other than me read Stig Saeterbakken? Norwegian author around the same age as Knausgaard, apparently quite famous in Norway, committed suicide in his mid 40s. I've read a couple of his, including his last, Through The Night, which was excellent but pretty harrowing stuff, about a man mourning the suicide of his son who goes on a journey to a mysterious house in Slovakia. (shades of Edouard Leve, who wrote the (also excellent) novel Suicide, then promptly committed suicide)

That's terrific news re: Solstad

It is.

I read "Siamese Twins" by Saeterbakken - "excellent but pretty harrowing" sums up my memory of it rather well. It sits fairly squarely in a genre of Nordic lit which revels in angry grimness, I liked it.

Danish writer Kirsten Thorup wins this years Nordic Council's Literature Prize! Danish critics are pretty surprised and ecstatic, apparently she's very good.

Why are awful people writing about Dag Solstad:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/03/dag-solstad-t-singer-armand-v-reviews

I scored copies of both the new Solstad translations in Chicago the other day; I am very excited to read them.

Got them too, starting one of them next I think.