von Mara Giese, Buzzaldrins Blog. Mara Giese und Bandit sind unsere Vorleser. I was invited by Selma Buchfee to write a portrait about the Norwegian author Ove Knausgard. I was happy to do so and immediately began working on it. Due to my insufficient language skills I can only write a brief summary for non-German …
Mara und Bandit
Mara Giese (Buzzaldrinsblog) wird im nächsten Beitrag den norwegischen Schriftsteller Karl Ove Knausgård vorstellen. Heute stellt sie sich selbst und ihren treuen Begleiter und Mitleser Bandit vor. Seine Geschichte lässt mein großes Hundeherz höher schlagen! Bandit spielt in meinem Leben eine ganz wichtige Rolle, aber neben ihm gibt es auch noch die Bücher und meinen …
Postcard from Trinity College, Dublin
Have you been to Dublin lately? We went there last month. We met Perfectlight, which was really great. A fortnight is rather short for the City of Literature, though… You thought Dublin in November’d be grey, wet and dull, right? Come with us to Trinity College. Let’s go to The Old Library, the Long Room. …
Postcard from Grønland, Greenland
fra årets naturfotograf i Danmark, Julie Skotte the danish photographer of the year 2012: Vi gratulerer – Herzlichen Glückwunsch – Congratulations, dear Julie! Thanks for jumping into the cold water and letting us see the iceberg as we’ve never seen it before: Blog: fotofabler.dk Website: julieskotte.com More photos coming up next.
Postcard from North Norfolk
“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo.” – Paul Scott Mowrer This week you can see my photos from North Norfolk on Pixartix, thanks dear Sofasophia and Irgendlink!
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
“…It’s surely clear that to describe Dublin as a City of Literature would be like saying rain sometimes falls in Ireland”. – Joseph O’Connor – author of Star of the Sea “He’d … settled into a life of Guinness, sarcasm and late, late nights, the kind of life that American academics think real Dubliners lead”. …
Postcard from Marsh’s Library, Dublin
“It’s history. It’s love of words… It’s a city of literature, of course it’s. It’s Dublin.” – John Boyne, author of “The boy in the Striped Pyjama” “The Library: Home of the world’s wisdom and the sustenance of the soul.” – M.E. DeBakey You can see more of my photos from this beautiful library on …
Literary Winter in Norway
Winter is on its way! No need to get upset about that. 🙂 A winterday up Far North can be a magic encounter with nature as here in Fredrikstad, my native city. In Norway, the main indor activity ist reading. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Norwegians read more than any other nation in the world. …
Not stealing, but letting out horses in Norway.
© Photos of young stallions at Feøya: Trond Thorvaldsen, Fredrikstad, Norway We’re in Dublin, a great opportunity for me to present a Norwegian novelist who won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2007: “Out stealing horses” by Per Petterson Per Petterson is a trained librarian. He has worked as a bookstore clerk, translator and literary critic before …
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