Two new Dag Solstads into English next May: 'Armand V' and 'T Singer'
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
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)
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
That's terrific news re: Solstad
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
Danish writer Kirsten Thorup wins this years Nordic Council's Literature Prize! Danish critics are pretty surprised and ecstatic, apparently she's very good.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
Why are awful people writing about Dag Solstad:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/03/dag-solstad-t-singer-armand-v-reviews
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 June 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
I scored copies of both the new Solstad translations in Chicago the other day; I am very excited to read them.
― Tim, Monday, 11 June 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
Got them too, starting one of them next I think.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:23 (five years ago) link