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18 DANISH and FAROESE LITERATURE Jógvan Isaksen Dan Turèll • Benny Andersen BENNY ANDERSEN
Translated by Paul Russell Garrett 978-1-870041-78-2 50 PAGES PAPERBACK £5.95 Karlsen is a down-on-his-luck private investigator looking for work. When the only job on offer is a contract killing, Karlsen agrees despite his lack of experience. Things don't go to plan and it seems the contract is open to negotiation. This absurdist comedy by one of Denmark’s best-loved writers sees the fates of the eponymous contract killer, his target, the employer and his wife, twist, turn and hang in the balance. DAN TURÈLL MURDER IN THE DARK Translated by Mark Mussari 978-1-870041-98-0 282 PAGES PAPERBACK £11.95
'Murder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime narrative and cool, unsentimental appraisal of Scandinavian society. As the narrator comments,"Copenhagen is at its most beautiful when seen out of a taxi at midnight, right at that magical moment when one day dies and another is born, and the printing presses are buzzing with the morning newspapers."' Barry Forshaw JÓGVAN ISAKSEN WALPURGIS TIDE Translated by John Keithsson 978-1-909408-24-1 282 PAGES PAPERBACK £11.95 Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-kill in Tórshavn. The detective Hannis Martinsson is asked to investigate by a representative of the organisation Guardians of the Sea – who shortly afterwards is killed when his private plane crashes. Suspicion falls on Faroese hunters, angry at persistent interference in their traditional whale hunt; but the investigation leads Martinsson to a much larger group of international vested interests, and the discovery of a plot which could devastate the whole country. 'Fascinating insights into a tiny land.' The Times Crime Club
19 DANISH and FAROESE LITERATURE Hanne Marie Svendsen Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen NO MAN'S LAND: MODERN DANISH WOMEN’S LITERATURE Edited by Annegret Heitmann 978-1-870041-05-8 211 PAGES PAPERBACK £8.95 ‘one of the strengths of this collection is the way in which these writers make us see Denmark as a cultural meeting place in which a variety of influences merge to produce some of the most interesting of contemporary women’s writing’ P. N. Review HANNE MARIE SVENDSEN
Translated by Marina Allemano 978-1-870041-62-1 302 PAGES PAPERBACK £9.95 Written in 1991, Under the Sun is the story of Margrethe Thiede, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper in an unnamed small fishing community on the north- western coast of Denmark. We follow Margrethe through her childhood, her years as a student in the capital, her marriage to a mentally unstable man, her involvement in the peace movement, and her old age. JØRGEN-FRANTZ JACOBSEN
Translated by George Johnston 978-1-909408-07-4 306 PAGES PAPERBACK £11.95 'A remarkable evocation of the starkness of life in the Faroe Islands and of the vitality and sexuality of an extraordinary woman'.
TLS Originally written in Danish, Barbara was the only novel by the Faroese author Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-38), yet it quickly achieved international best- seller status. It is a historical romance, containing a story of passion in an exotic setting and a built-in inevitability resulting from Barbara's own psychological make-up. Barbara Jørgen-Franz Jacobsen Jørgen-Franz Jacobsen
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Translated by George Johnston Classic Nordic Fiction Barbara, originally written in Danish, was the only novel by the Faroese author Jørgen-Franz Jacobsen (1900 - 1938), and yet it quickly achieved international best-seller status and is still one of the best-loved twentieth century classics in Danish and Faroese literature. On the face of it, Barbara is a straightforward historical novel in the mode of many a so-called ‘romance’. It contains a story of passion in an exotic setting with overtones of semi-piracy; there is a powerful erotic element, an outsider who breaks up a marriage, and a built-in inevitability resulting from Barbara’s own psychological make-up. She stands as one of the most complex female characters in modern Scandinavian literature: beautiful, passionate, innocent, devoted, amoral and uncomprehending of her own tragedy. Jørgen-Franz Jacobsen portrays her with a fascinated devotion. “A remarkable evocation of the starkness of life in the Faroe Islands and of the vitality and sexuality of an extraordinary woman, an amoral Cleopatra within a browbeaten community” (Times Literary Supplement) ISBN 978-1-909408-07-4 Jørgen-Franz Jacobsen BARBARA
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20 RUNAR SCHILDT THE MEAT-GRINDER & OTHER STORIES Translated by Anna-Lisa and Martin Murrell 978-1-870041-56-0 313 PAGES PAPERBACK £9.95
A collection of stories by one of Finland’s finest short-story writers, whose acute sense of irony and delicately drawn characters place him among the foremost exponents of the form. EDITH SÖDERGRAN
Edited and translated by Silvester Mazzarella 978-1-909408-21-0 240 PAGES PAPERBACK
£12.95 This anthology of the Finland-Swedish poet's letters illuminates the passionate and contradictory nature of her poetry. LITERATURE FROM FINLAND Runar Schildt • Edith Södergran Henry Parland • Juhani Aho HENRY PARLAND TO PIECES Translated by Dinah Cannell 978-1-870041-87-4 122 PAGES PAPERBACK £9.95
To Pieces is Henry Parland’s (1908-1930) only novel, published posthumously. Ostensibly the story of an unhappy love affair, the book is an evocative reflection upon the Jazz Age. Parland was profoundly influenced by Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, and reveals his narrative through fragments of memory, drawing on his fascination with photography, cinema, jazz, fashion and advertisements. JUHANI AHO
Translated by Owen Witesman, Introduction by Jyrki Nummi, Illustrated by Eero Järnefelt 978-1-870041-89-8 134 PAGES PAPERBACK £11.95 The Railroad (1884) was prose writer, poet, translator and journalist Juhani Aho’s first major literary work. Aho’s modern usage of the Finnish language and application of realistic style place him as one of the progenitors of Finnish literature. 21 VIIVI LUIK THE BEAUTY OF HISTORY Translated by Hildi Hawkins 978-1-909408-27-2 152 PAGES PAPERBACK £11.95 The Beauty of History is a novel of poetic intensity, powerfully evocative of life within the Baltic States during the Soviet occupation, and of the challenge to artists to express their individuality whilst maintaining an outward show of loyalty to the dominant ideology.
SVAVA JAKOBSDÓTTIR GUNNLÖTH’S TALE Translated by Oliver Watts 978-1-870041-79-9 232 PAGES PAPERBACK £9.95 A young Icelandic woman is arrested in the National Gallery of Denmark for stealing a priceless gold urn. She claims she is just recovering her birthright – the gold urn contained the mead of poetic creativity which she, Gunnlöth, guarded in ancient times, until it was stolen by the god Odin. The narrator is the woman’s mother, who gradually comes to understand and appreciate the significance of her story.
Christopher Moseley (ed.) 978-1-870041-25-6 264 PAGES PAPERBACK £9.95 This anthology contains writing by Scandinavian and Baltic authors, including works by Suzanne Brøgger (Denmark), Bo Carpelan (Finland), Arvo Valton (Estonia), Albert Bels (Latvia), Romualdas Lankauskas (Lithuania) and others. BEYOND BOREALISM Ian Giles, Laura Chapot, Christian Cooijamns, Ryan Foster, Barbara Tesio (eds.) 978-1-909408-33-3 289 PAGES PAPERBACK £14.95 This volume presents a range of new perspectives on the Nordic region, as well as its myriad of influences on its surroundings. The fifteen chapters in this publication showcase some of the best research being conducted by emerging researchers in Britain on Nordic topics. Divided into thematic sections, these chapters cover everything from historical narratives to contemporary culture, with numerous other elements in between. ICELANDIC, BALTIC LITERATURE and NORDIC CRITICISM Svava Jakobsdóttir • Viivi Luik 22 CENTRING ON THE PERIPHERIES: ESSAYS ON SCANDINAVIAN, SCOTTISH, GAELIC AND GREENLANDIC LITERATURE Bjarne Thorup Thomsen (ed.) 978-1-870041-66-9 288 PAGES PAPERBACK £16.95 In this collection of essays, the literatures of the islands, borderlands and landscapes of the North and Baltic Seas are set in dialogue with contemporary literary and socio-political approaches to the study of local, national and global cultural constellations. NORDIC CRITICISM LOVE AND MODERNITY: SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE, DRAMA AND LETTERS C. Claire Thomson & Elettra Carbone (eds.) 978-1-870041-99-7 388 PAGES PAPERBACK
£12.95 This collection of essays celebrates Professor Janet Garton's outstanding contribution over four decades to research, teaching and leadership in the field of Scandinavian Studies. Contributions from some two dozen scholars discuss Scandinavian literature, drama, letters and visual culture with a focus on themes of love, modernity, travel, faith, gender, sexuality and textuality.
Marie Wells (ed.) 978-1-870041-69-0 190 PAGES PAPERBACK £19.95 This volume brings together articles about travel to and within Scandinavia in the nineteenth century, showing how accounts of intrepid travellers were gradually replaced by guidebooks for tourists. The essays illustrate how travel- writing has become a genre which may be approached from a variety of angles, including those of literary, cultural and post-colonial theory and of translation theory.
Helena Forsås-Scott (ed.) 978-1-870041-60-7 292 PAGES
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£19.95 A collection of essays which examine the constructions and transformations of gender and power in a variety of texts in the broad sense of the word, encompassing painting, handicrafts, film and photography, as well as the literature of the Nordic cultural community. 23 NORDIC CRITICISM ELLEN REES
978-1-870041-59-1 204 PAGES PAPERBACK £14.95 This study examines the work of six women prose writers of the l930s. These writers - Stina Aronson, Karen Blixen, Karo Espeseth, Hagar Olsson, Cora Sandel and Edith Øberg - have been doubly marginalized. Their work has long been viewed as anomalous within the Scandinavian literary canon, but, apart from Karen Blixen, it also remains marginalized from examinations of women writers produced outside Scandinavia. ANGLO-SCANDINAVIAN CROSS-CURRENTS Inga-Stina Ewbank, Olav Lausund and Bjørn Tysdahl (eds.) 978-1-870041-44-7 346 PAGES HARDBACK £24.95 An examination of cultural and literary links between Britain and Scandinavia from the Victorian age to 1914.
Mats Jansson, Jakob Lothe & Hannu Riikonen (eds.) 978-1-870041-58-4 320 PAGES HARDBACK £24.95 Modernism is a truly international movement that cuts across many boundaries - geographical, cultural, and linguistic. The essays gathered here discuss the diverse forms of Modernism that emerged in the Nordic countries at widely differing moments.
Bjørn Tysdahl, Mats Jansson, Jakob Lothe & Steen Klitgård Povlsen (eds.) 978-1-870041-49-2 298 PAGES HARDBACK £24.95 This collection explores the links between the Modernism of Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf, and other English-language writers, and that found in the Nordic countries, and offers readers a new perspective on the Modernism of the English, Irish and US pantheons. 24 CAUGHT IN THE ENCHANTER’S NET AMALIE AND ERIK SKRAM’S LETTERS Edited and translated by Janet Garton 978-1-870041-52-2 463 PAGES PAPERBACK £19.95 ‘one of the rare examples of a truly Scandinavian approach to letter-studies’ Scandinavica A real-life love story which unfolds in letters between Amalie Skram, one of Norway’s most provocative nineteenth-century novelists, and her husband- to-be Erik Skram, a central commentator on Danish literary and cultural life. Their passionate affair is set against the turbulent debates of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough.
Michael Robinson & Janet Garton (eds.) 978-1-870041-39-3 422 PAGES HARDBACK £24.95 This collection of essays by scholars from several countries examines the letters of central figures of the Modern Breakthrough. There is also an introduction on the letter as a genre, and the 19th-century postal network that made such correspondence feasible.
C. Claire Thomson (ed.) 978-1-870041-63-8 248 PAGES PAPERBACK £16.95 Engaging with contemporary film and cultural theory – particularly on affect, embodiment, memory, place, interculturality, and realism – these essays explore the potential of cinema to map space, body, and community, and celebrate the diversity and dynamism of Nordic cinema.
Marita Fraser, Melissa Powell, Rose-Anne Ross, Anna V. Strauss, C. Claire Thomson (eds.) 978-1-909408-00-5 392 PAGES PAPERBACK £14.99 This anthology brings together essays written by students of Nordic Cinema at UCL. The essays discuss key directors and movements including Victor Sjöström, Carl Th. Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Lars von Trier, and Dogme 95, but they also include work on topics rarely discussed in English, such as alternative endings in early Danish cinema, inter-war drama in Norway, and the Finnish war film. NORDIC CRITICISM
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SCANDINAVICA An international journal devoted to the literature and culture of Scandinavia. Its authoritative articles, book reviews and detailed annual bibliographies make it an indispensable research tool for the subject, whilst providing stimulating and in-depth reading for the general reader interested in gaining a deeper knowledge of the subject. Two issues per year. Annual subscription rates: UK subscribers (individual) £20.00 UK subscribers (institution) £41.00 Non-UK (individual) $62.00 Non-UK (institution) $95.00 Subscription orders should be placed with your usual bookseller/agent or sent direct to Norvik Press. 10% discount is available for agencies. Back issues of most issues of Scandinavica are available: please enquire about availability and cost. The journal releases themed issues on different aspects of Nordic literature and culture. Recent issues include: Literature, Welfare and Well-being (50:1) edited by Peter Simonsen and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Nordic Publishing and Book History (51:2) edited by Elettra Carbone and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Lukas Moodysson (53:1) edited by C. Claire Thomson, The Norwegian Independence and Constitution of 1814 (54:1) edited by Elettra Carbone and Ruth Hemstad, and Scandinavian Media Tourism (55:1) edited by Anne Klara Bom. www.scandinavica.net
A literary magazine which presents Swedish and Finland-Swedish literature to the English-speaking world, through a mixture of translated extracts, articles, and book reviews. It offers an opportunity to keep in touch with contemporary Swedish literature, and to gain a new perspective on its past. Published twice a year.
Annual subscription rates: UK/EU £20.00, $30.00, 245 SEK Non EU £23.00, $35.00, 280 SEK Back issues of most issues of Swedish Book Review are available: please enquire about availability and cost. www.swedishbookreview.com To order or subscribe to either journal please email: norvik.press@ucl.ac.uk 2016:2 Swedish Book Review is the journal of SELTA, the Swedish-English Literary Translators’ Association and is published by Norvik Press (University College London) with the support of the Swedish Arts Council. www.swedishbookreview.com Also featuring: Interview with Norvik Press Alexander Koistinen Twilight Over Europe Runar Schildt The Rainbow Torgny Lindgren Short Story Reviews of Recent Books Elin Wägner in the Helsingborg Post Kerstin Ekman on Clas Bjerkander Anders Thunberg Karin Lannby and Ingmar Bergman 2016:2 Sw edish Book Re vie w 2016:2 SWEDISH
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