Dag Solstad and Sverre Lyngstad (translator)

Books by Dag Solstad and Sverre Lyngstad (translator)

Interviews where books by Dag Solstad and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) were recommended

Essential Norwegian Fiction, recommended by Roy Jacobsen

Sagas old and new, from Gisli Sursson’s trials to Knausgård’s struggle, form the backbone of Roy Jacobsen’s selection of essential fiction from Norway, a country that is like ‘a black and not very polished diamond’, and where writers and readers seek out the human, ‘no matter how awkward, grandiose, sentimental, nostalgic, embarrassing, hyperbolic, stupid, hilarious or dangerous it may be’

Books by Dag Solstad and Sverre Lyngstad (translator)

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