norwegian novels – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:38:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Crazy Norwegian Poll /College/translation/threepercent/2007/07/26/crazy-norwegian-poll/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/07/26/crazy-norwegian-poll/#respond Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:44:51 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/07/26/crazy-norwegian-poll/ Complete Review has an interesting today about a recent poll in which readers voted on the best Norwegian novel of all time.

Ibsen? Hamsun? Undset? Lars Saabye Christensen? Jan Kjaerstad? All losers.

The winner was Gert Nygardshaug’s Mengele Zoo, a mystery novel by an author Michael Orthofer hasn’t even heard of. (Which is saying a lot.)

This just reconfirms my belief that here in the States, would win by a landslide.

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