Another reading month I always look forward to with great anticipation is WIT Month – Women in Translation, founded by Meytal Radzinski. One thing I like to do each year is review my past year’s reading of women authors in translation, and I’m delighted to say it’s my best year ever. Admittedly, that’s buoyed by Read More
Category: Nordic FINDS 2023
Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen
Translated by Megan E. Turney This debut novel is already a prize winner in Madsen’s home country of Denmark, and it’s easy to see why. At first we love to hate the protagonist, Hannah, an established writer of much praised and exquisitely crafted prose novellas, who has fallen into that mid-career slump; her backlist is Read More
You Will Never Be Found by Tove Alsterdal – #NordicFINDS23
Translated by Alice Menzies It’s fitting to end my Nordic reading for January with this Swedish crime novel – for it was published today! You Will Never be Found is the second in a series featuring Police Assistant Eira Sjödin. I very much enjoyed reading the first volume, We Know You Remember last year, set Read More
#NordicFINDS23 – Wrap Up
Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who joined in with some Nordic reads for January – I hope you found some new gems from the FINDS countries. I managed six books and am just finishing a seventh, which will make one each from Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and two from Denmark and Finland. Again, Read More
And the Wind Sees All by Guðmundur Andri Thorsson, #NordicFINDS23
Translated by Andrew Cauthery and Björg Árnadóttir I come in off the sea and slide along the spit, and soon I will have vanished with the mist. I am the afternoon breeze; I visit at around half past four and an hour later slip away to my dwelling, made of the past: of the grass that stirred a Read More
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup #NordicFINDS23
Translated by Caroline Waight I’ve had this book recommended to me by so many Scandi-crime afficionados, that it seemed a good choice to pick for a #NordicFINDS23 readalong… Hmm, maybe not such a good decision: for not only is it nasty, it is so twisty that it was nearly impossible to tweet as I went Read More
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas #NordicFINDS23
Translated by Torbjørn Støverud and Michael Barnes I discovered the beautifully observed novella The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas (reviewed here) during last year’s Nordic FINDS, it was as much a hit with me as everyone else who had been reading it since Penguin brought out their new Modern Classics edition. Penguin followed up with another Read More
Nordic FINDS returns #NordicFINDS23
Firstly Happy New Year to everyone – in all the Nordic languages to your right too! There are no reading resolutions from me today (they’ll come later) as instead it’s my pleasure to welcome you all to Nordic FINDS 2023 – a month of celebrating literature from the five Nordic countries: Finland Iceland Norway Denmark Read More
NORDIC FINDS is back for Jan 2023
After the success of my first Nordic FINDS Reading Project this January (wrap-up post here, dedicated page here), I’ve been asked if I was bringing it back to make it a regular reading month. Well, I couldn’t resist! This year I dedicated the first five weeks of 2022 to one of the five countries per Read More
#NordicFINDS – Iceland Week
And so we reach the final week of my project to read Nordic lit with a visit to Iceland. I think Harry’s getting fed up of being used as a prop for my books. My Icelandic TBR is a select small pile, my review of my gateway book will be posted tomorrow. I’m currently taking Read More
#NordicFINDS – Sweden Week
Sweden is the Nordic country I have read the most from over the years. You can find a list of the books featured on this blog at my project page here. Notably, in that list and my Swedish TBR pictured above, there are the beginning books in several series. I love starting a new crime Read More
