Books by Knut Hamsun and Sverre Lyngstad (translator)
“As every Russian writer is rolled out of Gogol’s coat, every Norwegian one is an offspring of Hamsun, admittedly or otherwise…He tore apart both the grammar and the lexicon of our language, mixed high and low, dialect and aristocratic speech, and put all the pieces beautifully together again—in the totally new fashion we call contemporary Norwegian literature…We have made a taciturn deal—to punish him postmortem for his political ideas, and simultaneously, and reluctantly, praise him for his contribution to literature” Read more...
Roy Jacobsen, Novelist
Interviews where books by Knut Hamsun and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) were recommended
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Gisli Sursson’s Saga
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Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) -
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Shyness and Dignity
by Dag Solstad and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) -
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Beatles
by Don Bartlett (translator) & Lars Saabye Christensen -
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My Struggle
by Don Bartlett (translator) & Karl Ove Knausgård
Essential Norwegian Fiction, recommended by Roy Jacobsen
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’
