Towards the end of this wide-ranging and absorbing collection of poetry and prose written by and about people living away from their places of birth, we find what seems as good a definition as any of exile. Describing the ‘Middle World’ or ‘MOR’ (his name for the place), South African Breyte
Antal Szerb was an award-winning Hungarian novelist and a widely respected scholar of European literature. He remains one of Hungary’s best-loved writers, and his works have been translated into many other languages. In the 2000s, the publication (in English translation by Len Rix) of Journey by M
Tatyana Tolstaya lives a double life. A fiercely postmodern, vibrant writer of the here-and-now, an indulgently larger-than-life presence in Russian letters and culture at home and abroad, she is also a ghost – a rather hard-to-miss, palpably material ghost, but a ghost of Russian and Tolstoyan pa
As a former diplomat and a member of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Andreas Norman knows a thing or two about counterterrorism, but he will divulge nothing that compromises his previous position. What he does reveal, however, colours and enhances that otherwise murky realm, alien to most
Baltic Belles is an anthology of fiction by some of Estonia’s greatest female writers. Stretching from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this collection of short stories and novel fragments includes a number of award-winning authors and covers a range of subjects, from the meditation
Danish author, Maria Gerhardt, died of breast cancer on 16 March 2017. She was thirty-nine years old and left behind a wife and son. Soon after, Transfer Window, a haunting account of her final months, was published. Now, Nordisk Books, an exciting new publishing house focusing on contemporary Scand
