At Crime Scraps, Uriah took the occasion of Radovan Karadzic’s arrest to read a book by Danish author Leif Davidsen. He found The Serbian Dane hard-hitting and exciting – and was surprised that it was written in 1996, given its ripped-from-the-headlines storyline.
Archive for July, 2008
Nordic Crime at Harrogate
July 30, 2008The inexhaustable Karen Meek published a fine round-up of a panel at the Harrogate Festival on Nordic Crime. It includes some discussion of the debt owed to Sjowall and Waloo’s ground-breaking Marin Beck series as well as the difficulty of translating a book into English that suits both a US and UK audience. (Translations of Mari Jungstedt and Helene Tursten both came in for criticism, though the only specific mentioned was that they were American.) Then there is a round-robin of recommendations from all of the Scandinavian countries. I was pleased to see Jo Nebso and Arnaldur Indridason mentioned, two of my favorites. The comments are well worth a read, too.
a new project
July 28, 2008In this blog, I hope to keep up with the flood of amazingly good books coming out of Scandinavia and being translated into English. I’m also building a website to track information about authors and their books. It seemed like a project custome-made for a library at a Swedish heritage college. And besides, I want to keep up with all the news, myself.
The header image on this blog was invented by R. S., who kindly made his Terragen images available via a Flickr Creative Commons license. Take a look at the whole set – it’s quite amazing!
