The History of Danish Dreams - Peter Hoeg

Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg

Saturn in your name, instead of a boring old letter 'o'. Y'know if he'd been British, everyone would have assumed that it was a crossed-out letter 'o' and called him Peter Heg! Now I first came across that little picture of Saturn (I'm sure Malu or alkaliguru will tell us its proper name in the comments) while reading a book called Contact Lost by Leif Hamre when I was a lad. Contact Lost won the Norwegian State Prize for the best children's book, but it hasn't made my Top Ten Children's Books - which is now due around Easter by the way. ;¬) (By the way, does anyone know why one of those little pictures of Saturn appears just ...

Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg

Saturn in your name, instead of a boring old letter 'o'. Y'know if he'd been British, everyone would have assumed that it was a crossed-out letter 'o' and called him Peter Heg! Now I first came across that little picture of Saturn (I'm sure Malu or alkaliguru will tell us its proper name in the comments) while reading a book called Contact Lost by Leif Hamre when I was a lad. Contact Lost won the Norwegian State Prize for the best children's book, but it hasn't made my Top Ten Children's Books - which is now due around Easter by the way. ;¬) (By the way, does anyone know why one of those little pictures of Saturn appears just ...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

above hers, but the critics’ comments made me take a closer look. All the reviews I have read of ‘Smilla’ praise the fluid prose style of Peter Hoeg, and it is only rarely that you can say that a really magical sense of the original text has been retained in a translation. Seems strange to say it, but that is something I notice even more now, as I have been working as a translator for the past 2 years. I normally try to avoid reading a translation of a German book, and I steer clear of English texts translated into German. The job gives you quite a keen sense of when something is not quite right, when a word chosen just misses the sense of the ...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

above hers, but the critics’ comments made me take a closer look. All the reviews I have read of ‘Smilla’ praise the fluid prose style of Peter Hoeg, and it is only rarely that you can say that a really magical sense of the original text has been retained in a translation. Seems strange to say it, but that is something I notice even more now, as I have been working as a translator for the past 2 years. I normally try to avoid reading a translation of a German book, and I steer clear of English texts translated into German. The job gives you quite a keen sense of when something is not quite right, when a word chosen just misses the sense of the ...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

a white blanket of ice blossoms formed from salt and frozen drops of water." Lovely. Oh, I was going to talk about so many more things; about Hoeg, a man, writing as a woman, about the wonderfully successful translation which allows the original meanings to shine like a beacon straight through it, even about the striking, memorable but odd and slightly clunky sex scene, but you know, I don't think I will; I'll leave those things for you to think about because above all this is Smilla's book: Smilla the vain woman who considers her clothes and appearance before she considers almost anything, Smilla the lonely woman who wants solitude more than a lover, ...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

a white blanket of ice blossoms formed from salt and frozen drops of water." Lovely. Oh, I was going to talk about so many more things; about Hoeg, a man, writing as a woman, about the wonderfully successful translation which allows the original meanings to shine like a beacon straight through it, even about the striking, memorable but odd and slightly clunky sex scene, but you know, I don't think I will; I'll leave those things for you to think about because above all this is Smilla's book: Smilla the vain woman who considers her clothes and appearance before she considers almost anything, Smilla the lonely woman who wants solitude more than a lover, ...