#litintranslation

[emmaakg]

A novella for #readharder2020 - “Heart of a Dog” by Mikhail Bulgakov. Super weird and creepy, and the dog doesn’t die! Yay! #mikhailbulgakov #litintranslation #russianliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/CJRPh8RsScq/?igshid=150jaozqja1wm

[ipgbook]

Not just one but TWO @orendabooks titles are shortlisted for The Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year!! TWO!! Of the YEAR! We are so proud to represent these books and to help them reach North American readers! 🥳🕵🏼‍♀️🔪🇳🇴 THE ICE SWIMMER by @k_o_dahl , translated by Don Bartlett, and BIG SISTER by @gunnarstaalesen also translated by Don Bartlett are finalists that were winnowed from an original field of 38 titles. The judges’ comments for the shortlisted titles: THE ICE SWIMMER - Kjell Ola Dahl has achieved international acclaim for his ‘Oslo Detectives’ police procedural series, of which The Ice Swimmer is the latest instalment. When a dead man is found in the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour, Detective Lena Stigersand takes on the investigation while having to deal with some difficult personal issues. With the help of her trusted colleagues Gunnarstranda and Frølich, she digs deep into the case and uncovers possible links to the Norwegian establishment. Once again, Dahl has produced a tense and complex thriller, with his trademark close attention to social issues. BIG SISTER - In this highly acclaimed, long-running series, former social worker turned private investigator Varg Veum solves complex crimes which often have a strong historic dimension. In Big Sister, Veum is surprised by the revelation that he has a half-sister, who asks him to look into the whereabouts of her missing goddaughter, a nineteen-year-old trainee nurse. Expertly plotted, with an unsettling, dark undertone, this novel digs deep into Veum’s family past to reveal old secrets and hurts, and is by turns an absorbing and exciting read. . #litintranslation #translation #nordicnoir #crimefiction #readcrimefiction #scandinavian #petronaaward #bestcrimefiction #orendabooks #readmore #bookish #bookstack #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bibliophile #indiebookstores #tbrpile #threepercentpodcast @openletterbooks #bookpile #booksonbooks #translatedworks #librarylove #nextbook https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw51DvGnV7h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eqaan6wlrwni

[womeninletters]

I is for Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky was born in Ukraine, the daughter of a banker in what was then the Russian Empire. When her family fled during the 1917 Revolution, Irène ended up in France, and started writing whilst attending the Sorbonne. Her second novel, David Golder was a huge success, and Némirovsky continued to publish throughout the 1930s. Despite the acclaim, she was denied French citizenship in 1938 and by 1940, her work could no longer be published, due to the family’s Russian-Jewish ancestry. She was eventually arrested in 1942, and sent to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus a month after arriving.

Némirovsky was relatively unknown in the English-speaking world until a revival of her unfinished epic work, Suite Française. Inspired by the scale of War and Peace and written during the Nazi occupation of France, the two unfinished novellas that make up Suite Française have gone on to win the prestigious Prix Renaudot - the first time the award has been given posthumously. Némirovsky’s work is both deeply personal, often touching upon her painful relationship to her mother and the world of financiers she lived in and grand in scale, with richly detailed characters and stories that define ages.

Start with… Suite Française, David Golder, Le Bal

Other I’s we love

Inka Parei // Iris Murdoch // Irmgard Keun // Isabel Allende