May 23, 2021
...I have always been drawn towards the hidden and the secret.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. Ingvild Burkey, Autumn
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...I have always been drawn towards the hidden and the secret.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. Ingvild Burkey, Autumn
“I was thirty-eight years old, everything was blown, I had nothing left.” Men in My Situation by Per Petterson
“I was thirty-eight years old, everything was blown, I had nothing left.” Men in My Situation by Per Petterson @HarvillSecker @GraywolfPress #NorwegianLit
There we sat in silence beneath the big wide tall trees behind the station building, breathing, each in our uneven rhythm, as if we’d all been running, but none of us the same distance. Then I said, Vigdis, I guess it’s up to you whether we should say anything about this to Mummy, about what just happened. It was quiet in the back seat, all three of them sat there looking out the windows. Vigdis…
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It was a very interesting and good conversation between me and Ingvild Burkey about Louise Glück, her poetry and Ingvild´s fine translation of the book “Wild Iris” to Norwegian at Blå in Oslo.