“Suddenly it’s all about Norway. Everywhere.” Thus tweeted Pamela Paul, editor of the NY Times Book Review, a few weeks ago. Today the Norwegian-American Literary Festival comes to New York, featuring the grand old man of Norwegian literature, Dag Solstad, and four promising younger writers, plus a musical performance by Norwegian-of-the-moment Karl Ove Knausgaard. While you count down the hours to peak Nor-Lit, here are five Norwegian books in translation worth discovering.
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