Translators Look North
Papers presented at the Nordic Translation Conference 2013 held at the University of East Anglia have now been published as True North: Literary Translation in the Nordic Countries, edited by…
Here Come the “Brides”
Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) is perhaps best known for his four-volume “Emigrants” series of novels, filmed by director Jan Troell as The Emigrants and The New Land (starring Max von Sydow…
Swedish Crime with a Twist
A Small Indiscretion by Denise Rudberg, translated by Laura Wideburg, is the first in a series featuring detective inspector Marianne Jidhoff in the “elegant crime” genre. Jidhoff has been on…