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Swedish pocket edition

Just received the cover design for the Swedish pocket edition. Another variation on a theme – very nice!

 

The kindness of Finland

The Finnish cover for The Kindness of Your Nature – Kaikki Hyvä Sinussa – has just arrived. I am very, very pleased with how it looks.

As an excerp for the back of the cover, the following passage has been chosen:

“Here, I realised that the darkness was not absolute. From up there on the deck the sea had been one with the surrounding darkness. But now I saw a multitude of shifting grey hues, as manifold as the most colourful landscape.”

Publication is scheduled for March 2012.

Publisher Gummerus

Translation Anuirmeli Sallamo-Lavi

I am grateful to the team who has looked after my books so very well in Finland, and I hope this release will make us all proud.

En français, finalement!

Finally, ‘Let me sing you gentle songs’ also titled ‘Astrid and Veronika’ is available in French, translated by Mélanie Carpe and published by L’Archipel.

Here is a first review, dated 20 January, in Le Monde:

 

 

 

 

To begin again

But first, celebrate what has been. The hard work:

and

and music, especially Peace Piece by Bill Evans. And a little wine….

The result:

Albert Bonniers Förlag, Sweden

Aronsen Forlag, Denmark

Penguin, New Zealand and Australia

 

In line to publish in the new year:

Vigmostad & Björke, Norway, Gummerus, Finland, btb HC, Germany and Penguin, the USA

Also, very excitingly, Let me sing you gentle songs will be published in France in January 2012, and in Russia later in the year. The first little novel travels on.

Time for me to turn my head and my mind to a new imaginary world…

To quote Homer from the Odyssey:

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

 

Time to go

Copenhagen, November 2011

Again, a small death. Packing up and leaving. It gets no easier with practice.

This time in Sweden has been busy with a lot of domestic travel, public appearences and meetings. Visits to Norway and Denmark. Wonderful, but exhausting. For the first time, I have felt like a proper Swedish author, included. But abruptly, that will all change now, and I will have to start swimming in another sea, at the other side of the earth. I know that once I am there it will feel absolutely fine, it’s just this transition that is so very hard.

On the way to Auckland, I will stop over in Paris for a week, and for the first time meet my French publisher, Archipel. It will be very interesting to see how ‘Let me sing you gentle songs’ will be received in France.

Under resans gång

Somligt har jag lärt mig

under resans gång

Det är inte alltid

namnet på stationerna

som betyder något

utan snarare vem

som möter dig på perrongen

när du väl kommer fram.

 

During the journey 

Some things I have learnt

during the journey

It isn’t always

the names of the stations

that are significant

but rather

who will meet you  on the platform

when you finally arrive.

Siv Arb, from Nattens sömmerskor/ Seamstresses of the night

More gratitude…

Another very moving New Zealand Review, this time the Rotorua Daily Post.