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I was browsing the 2009 Crime/Mystery Novels from Non-English-speaking countries thread and noticed that (like me), you are an English speaker who reads Swedish fiction in the original language, but with a Swedish-English dictionary not too far away....
So far, I've read books by Jan Guillou, Anna Jansson, Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Sjöwall & Wahlöö - but find the prose style of some much easier than others (Stieg Larsson is a breeze, but Anna Jansson is really tough - I think it's because she goes in for very descriptive prose, and less dialogue).
So - I was wondering if you could recommend a new author to me. I've seen you championing Åke Edwardson's stuff: how often does he send you running to your dictionary, compared with other authors?
Oh - and just in case you have an eReader, but haven't discovered www.bokus.com, Swedish ebooks are astonishingly cheap there. I'm working my way through the Martin Beck novels at 39 kronor a time.
posted by Macon at 9:00 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
Penny
posted by pmarshall at 12:38 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009
Why do you think there are not more of Åke Edwardson's books translated into English?
I jammed through the two that are, with great delight.
I've only recently started reading crime fiction- havent found much good articulate writing- until Rendell and then suddenly Mankell and Indridason and............the rest of the nordic wave.
posted by lil_ghostcrab at 8:51 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2009
Tack för länkarna. Jag kommer att studera dem med intresse. Jag är också intresserad av frågor som rör Afrika, och jag läser bland annat en del om Senegal där jag har ett fadderbarn.
Jag blir lite nyfiken på hur du har lärt dig svenska? Det är ju inte något stort språk i världen, precis.
Vänliga hälsningar från Anna-Marie!
posted by Anna-Marie at 4:10 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2009