Innehåll #2 2011

The translator of poetry is peculiarly vulnerable. The relative brevity of poems leaves them, as it were, naked to scrutiny. The gimlet-eyed critic is far more likely to home in on an infelicitous choice of phrase in a slim poetry collection than on, say, page 394 of a 600-page novel. This has been evident in the recent correspondence in the "Guardian" in the wake of reviews of Robin Fulton Macpherson’s new volume of Tranströmer interpretations. SBR salutes his willingness to stand up and be counted, and applauds him as a role model for the visibility of the translator at a time when reviews, even in serious publications, still depressingly often fail to credit translators at all.
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from The World’s Last Novel
Daniel Sjölin

Translated by Dominic Hinde
Daniel Sjölin is one of Sweden's most critically acclaimed contemporary literary and media personalities. The World's Last Novel is a surreal satire on the contemporary literary scene and a commentary on Sjölin's own media personality and the nature of literary celebrity. Dominic Hinde introduces the novel and presents his translation of an extract.


Neighbour of Evil
Klas Åmark

Translated and Introduced by Janet Cole
In 2000, the Swedish government commissioned a research programme on Sweden's relations with Nazism, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, appointing historian Klas Åmark coordinator. Neighbour of Evil is the final report on this Nazism research programme and a reevaluation of the period. Janet Cole introduces the report and presents her translation of a chapter dealing with the appeal of Nazism and Nazi Germany to Swedes in the arts.


Selma Lagerlöf: Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey
Paul Binding

Novelist and prolific reviewer Paul Binding, who in recent weeks has also penned a review of three new Selma Lagerlöf translations for the Times Literary Supplement, presents a heartfelt essay on Selma Lagerlöf's classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.


Inventing an Idiolect: Report from a Workshop on Translating Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Ruth Urbom & Nichola Smalley

Ruth Urbom and Nichola Smalley report from a workshop on translating Jonas Hassen Khemiri held in London earlier this year, at which ten independently prepared translations of the same passage provided a clear illustration of the often-repeated maxim that every translation is an interpretation.


SELTA: The First 25 Years, 1981-2006
Tom Geddes

As an independent association of translators working from a single source language, the Swedish-English Literary Translators Association has always been a rare beast. Tom Geddes presents an outline history of the first 25 years of SELTA.


We are Unspeakable Assemblies of Atoms
Ingela Strandberg

Translated by Göran Malmqvist
Göran Malmqvist presents translations of selections from a new poetry suite by Ingela Strandberg.


Reviews
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Malte Persson, Underjorden (Underground)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789100125646

Reviewed by Anna Tebelius ▸Read Review


Tomas Tranströmer, Dikter och prosa 1954-2004 (Poetry and Prose 1954-2004)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789100125721

Reviewed by Robin Fulton Macpherson ▸Read Review


Staffan Bergsten, Tomas Tranströmer: Ett diktarporträtt (Tomas Tranströmer: A Portrait of the Poet)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789100125158

Reviewed by Robin Fulton Macpherson ▸Read Review


Harriet Löwenhjelm, Samlade dikter. Med forörd och kommentarer av Boel Hackman (Collected Poems. With Foreword and Commentaries by Boel Hackman)

Podium, 2011. ISBN: 9789189196490

Reviewed by Sarah Death ▸Read Review


Tomas Tranströmer, New Collected Poems

Bloodaxe Books, 2011. ISBN: 9781852244132

Reviewed by Steven Johannes Fowler ▸Read Review


Harry Martinson, Chickweed Wintergreen, Selected Poems

Bloodaxe Books, 2010. ISBN: 9781852248871

Reviewed by Brita Green ▸Read Review


Tomas Bannerhed, Korparna (The Ravens)

Weyler förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789185849543

Reviewed by Janny Middelbeek-Oortgiesen ▸Read Review


Julia Dahlberg, Islossning (Break-Up of the Ice)

Söderströms, 2011. ISBN: 9789515228000

Reviewed by Anna-Lisa Murrell ▸Read Review


Jens Lapidus, Livet deluxe (Life de Luxe)

Wahlström & Widstrand, 2011. ISBN: 9789146220299

Reviewed by Marie Allen ▸Read Review


Lotta Lotass, Sparta

Self-Published, 2010. ISBN: 9789163370689

Reviewed by Eric Dickens ▸Read Review


Lukas Moodysson, Döden & Co. (Death & Co)

Wahlström & Widstrand, 2011. ISBN: 9789146220886

Reviewed by Rick McGregor ▸Read Review


Kristina Ohlsson, Änglavakter (Guardian Angels)

Pirat, 2011. ISBN: 9789164203533

Reviewed by Agnes Broome and Nichola Smalley ▸Read Review


Eva Ström, Den flödande lyckan (Flowing Happiness)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789100125363

Reviewed by Anna Tebelius ▸Read Review


Klas Åmark, Att bo granne med ondskan. Sveriges förhållande till nazismen, Nazityskland och Förintelsen (Neighbour of Evil. Sweden's Relationship to Nazism, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789100124939

Reviewed by Carl Otto Werkelid ▸Read Review


Martin Hårdstedt, Omvälvningarnas tid: Norden och Europa under revolutions- och Napoleonkrigen (Times of Upheaval: The Nordic Countries and Europe in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars)

Norstedts, 2010. ISBN: 9789113024387

Reviewed by John Gilmour ▸Read Review


Kerstin Ekman and Gunnar Eriksson, Se blomman (See the Flower)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789100125776

Reviewed by Helena Forsås-Scott ▸Read Review


Per I. Gedin, Jag. Carl Larsson. En biografi (I. Carl Larsson. A Biography)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN: 9789100125745

Reviewed by Anna Paterson ▸Read Review


Liselott Willén, Ingenstans under himlen (No Other Name Under Heaven)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2010. ISBN: 9789100124526

Reviewed by Sarah Death ▸Read Review


Claes de Faire, Alla lyckliga familjar liknar varandra (All Happy Families Resemble One Another)

Wahlström & Widstrand, 2011. ISBN: 9789146220855

Reviewed by James Walker ▸Read Review


Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman, Alla monster måste dö (All Monsters Must Die)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2010. ISBN: 9789100124885

Reviewed by Anna Paterson ▸Read Review






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