Twentieth-century Norwegian Writers
Author | : Tanya Thresher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Authors, Norwegian |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tanya Thresher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Authors, Norwegian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tanya Thresher |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Presents biographies and criticism of some of the most influential Norwegian writers of the twentieth century, producing a representative cross section of the Norwegian literary environment with writers of various decades, movements, and genres - preference has been given to authors whose works have been translated into English.
Author | : Sigrid Undset |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0816684693 |
Happy Times in Norway is a moving and delicately humorous picture of Undset’s own blissful home life before her nation fell to the Nazi occupation. Captured here is the excitement of a Norwegian Christmas, the Seventeenth of May, and summer in the idyllic mountains, as well as the chaotic adventure of raising two energetic boys. With vivid detail and illuminating descriptions of the landscape, Happy Times in Norway is infused with the wish that those cherished days could come again.
Author | : Hanna Astrup Larsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Authors, Norwegian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kjell Askildsen |
Publisher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939810957 |
From one of the greatest Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, comes a collection of spare, biting stories of people caught between reality and expectation, hope and despair, love and longing. A man and a woman in a quiet, remote house, an old man on a park bench, an estranged brother in a railway café -- Kjell Askildsen's characters are surrounded by absence. Filled with disquiet, and longing, they walk to a fjord, they smoke, they drink on a veranda, they listen to conversations that drift through open windows. Small flashes like the promise of a sunhat, a nail in a cherry tree, or a raised flag, reveal the interminable space between desire and reality in which Askildsen's characters are forever suspended. Widely recognized as one of the greatest modern short-story writers, with unadorned prose and a dark humor, Askildsen captures life as it really is, the worlds of his characters uncanny mirrors of our own.
Author | : Dag Solstad |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811228290 |
A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag Solstad Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he’s tangled up in a game or reality. Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Novel 11, Book 18, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author’s remarkable gifts and wit.
Author | : Solveig Zempel |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2013-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452903107 |
For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters home was their most cherished opportunity to communicate their thoughts and feelings in their native language. Through vivid translations of letters written to family and friends between 1870 and 1945, In Their Own Words traces the stories of nine Norwegian immigrants: farmer, fisherman, gold miner, politician, unmarried mother, housewife, businessman, railroad worker, contractor. Their common bond was the experience of immigration and acculturation, but their individual experiences were manifested in a wide variety of forms. Solveig Zempel has thoughtfully selected and translated letters rich in personal description and observation to present each writer’s subjective view of historical events. Often focusing on the minutiae of daily life and the feelings of the individual immigrant, the letters form a complex, intimate, and colorful mosaic of the immigrant world. Solveig Zempel is chair of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Author | : Knut Hamsun |
Publisher | : LA CASE Books |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power—and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Author | : Lanae H. Isaacson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Authors, Norwegian |
ISBN | : 9781414462271 |
This volume surveys Norwegian literature from the humanism of the vibrant, worldly Hanseatic city Bergen in the 16th century to the symbolism, expressionism & fin-de-siecle poetry and prose associated with Europe. Norway came into its own as a literary powerhouse in the 19th century, a period of literary ferment when most of the authors covered in the volume lived.
Author | : Johan Borgen |
Publisher | : New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Wilfred Sagen, a young boy growing up in pre-World War I Norway, cleverly hides his schizophrenic tendencies from his parents.