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- CRITIC’S BEST BOOK PICK 2014: Dagerman’s Short Fiction
- To Stig’s Memory Nov 4, 2014
- Self Deception In A BURNT CHILD
- Stig Into Turkish
- Meeting Stig
- Reading A BURNT CHILD
- In the Forest of Paradoxes
- Island of the Doomed Reviewed
- Reading ISLAND OF THE DOOMED
- Writer’s Role: To Build Bridges And Break Glass
- To Dialogue with Dagerman
- Anita on Stig
- Stig’s Christmas Message
- “Somehow the door to my life is locked …
- Should we care when guilty people suffer?
- “She came to the farm and bore me … and then vanished.”
- “I seek consolation as a hunter tracking prey”
Author Archives: lo.dagerman
CRITIC’S BEST BOOK PICK 2014: Dagerman’s Short Fiction
Swedish book critic Stina Otterberg picks NATTENS LEKAR Collected short fiction by Stig Dagerman, preface by Colm Toíbín (Norstedts, 2014). DN.se 12/13/14 DAGERMAN’S RESISTANCE OFFERS CONSOLATION Review (excerpt translated by Lo Dagerman), DN.se 12/6/14 In these days of Nazi-flavored racism … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice McDermott, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Colm Toibin, German Autumn, Nattens lekar, short fiction, Sleet, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Steven Hartman, Stig Dagerman, Stina Otterberg, The Emperor of Lies, The Games of Night, The Snake, Thousand Years with God, To Kill A Child, Where's My Icelandic Sweater?
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To Stig’s Memory Nov 4, 2014
by Lo Dagerman – preface to Chilean Mar y Tierra’s anniversary publication. Everything significant that I experience, all that fills my life with a sense of wonder—meeting with a lover, a caress on my skin, help in distress, eyes reflecting … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, Camus, Christina Olivier, freedom, Mar y Terra, Nuestra necesidad de consuelo es insaciable, our need for consolation, our need for consolation is insatiable, Sisyphus, Stellan Skarsgard, Stig Dagerman, suicidal ideation, tetes raides, writer's block
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Self Deception In A BURNT CHILD
A question from a reader: “I just read A Burnt Child, and I have been thinking quite a lot about it. I can see that it is partly about self-deception but I can’t describe how properly. Could you possibly help me, … Continue reading
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Stig Into Turkish
by Halil Gôkhan, Writer and Editor of KAFEKÜLTÜR in Istanbul If I remember correctly, the first time I heard Stig Dagerman`s name was in 2005 when I learnt that the Turkish writer and journalist Yasar Kemal had received an award from the Swedish … Continue reading
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Meeting Stig
By Michael Meyer, from his introduction to The Games of Night, 1959. I first saw Stig Dagerman in 1948, when he came to speak in a debate at Uppsala University. He was then 25 years old and already had three … Continue reading
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Reading A BURNT CHILD
PURITY IS A HARD TASK MASTER by Brita Green, Ph.D. I don’t remember exactly what year it was when we, a group of young Swedes, all read Stig Dagerman and in particular his novel A Burnt Child, but it would … Continue reading
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In the Forest of Paradoxes
Extract from J.M.G. Le Clezio’s Nobel Lecture December 7, 2008 Shortly before I received the—to me, astonishing—news that the Swedish Academy was awarding me this distinction, I was re-reading a little book by Stig Dagerman that I am particularly fond … Continue reading
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Tagged J.M.G. Le Clezio, Nobel, Nobel Prize in Literature, Stig Dagermansallskapet
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Island of the Doomed Reviewed
Frederic Lindsay, The Scotsman, April 18, 1992 “ANGUISH PLAYED OUT IN A SURREAL LANDSCAPE Born in 1923, by the time he was 26, the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman had published four novels, a short story collection, a brilliant book-length report … Continue reading
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Reading ISLAND OF THE DOOMED
Dagerman’s second novel was written right before his journey to Germany in the fall of ’46. Its structure is bursting at the seams with over-heated, hallucinatory imagery, the unfettered flow of which is unique in his production. (Dagerman’s reporting from … Continue reading
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Writer’s Role: To Build Bridges And Break Glass
“As a bridge builder, I am fascinated by the solutions to three main problems: First, there is the problem of connection. I hope to be able to break my own isolation by having one support … Continue reading
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