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  Torgny Lindgren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Torgny Lindgren (born June 16, 1938 in Raggsjö, Norsjö, Sweden) is a Swedish writer.
Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with The Way of a Serpent (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget).
Lindgren has been translated into thirty languages and is one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torgny_Lindgren   (285 words)

  
 Torgny Lindgren -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Torgny Lindgren (born June 16, 1938 in Raggsjö, (additional info and facts about Norsjö) Norsjö, (A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula) Sweden) is a (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland) Swedish writer.
Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthru, with "The Way of a Serpent" (swedish: "Ormens väg på hälleberget").
Lindgren has been translated into thirty languages and is one of Sweden's most internatinally successful contemporary writers.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/torgny_lindgren.htm   (328 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Sweetness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The brilliance of this novel, in Geddes's elegant and seamless translation, is its ability to gracefully present an ironic and gripping account of sibling competition while, on a deeper level, grappling with the structure of love, personality and relationships.
Lindgren (The Way of the Serpent; Light) is one of Sweden's most renowned writers of literary fiction, a fabulist who translates contemporary dilemmas into tongue-in-cheek folktales.
Torgny Lindgren was born in Sweden in 1938.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/1860466567/reviews   (894 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Chroniques et points de vue Livres en anglais: Hash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Their adventures are narrated in a faux-naïf style by a 107-year-old newspaper reporter, who was witness to the events as they occurred in 1947, and has waited to confront his own relationship to life and death, happiness and suffering, and the power of art to express life’s ambiguities.
Torgny Lindgren is widely hailed as one of the most prominent literary figures on the world scene today.
In 1991, Lindgren was elected to the Swedish Academy, the eighteen-member committee that selects the honorees for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/0715632647/reviews   (847 words)

  
 culture12_eng   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was born 1938 in the village of Raggsjö in the northwest corner of the province of Västerbotten, the coast part of the county of Västerbotten.
The library of the spa was inaugurated as The Torgny Lindgren Room August 24, 2002.
Then the author read out an imaginary letter from uncle Lindgren at the sanitarium to father Lindgren in lumbering, with the puffing voice of the consumptive patient in the tongue of the shire and the words of the "readers".
www.rondellen.net /culture12_eng.htm   (508 words)

  
 Errata 2: November 2004
Swedish writer – and member of the Swedish Academy – Torgny Lindgren is reviewed in The Guardian:
Less well known, but still likely to bring up memories for some of a grey, gelatinous mess served in school kitchens, is the northern speciality "Pölsan", a member of the haggis family rendered in Tom Geddes's translation of Torgny Lindgren's latest novel as hash.
Lindgren’s short novel is however a quite charming bagatelle, very typical for a certain strain of Swedish northern rural magical realism which in this case – intentionally or not – is almost on the edge of self-parody.
www.apolloprojektet.com /errata2/2004_11_01_archive.html   (300 words)

  
 The King David Report; Bathsheba (Stefan Heym, Torgny Lindgren)
The familiar figures — Uriah the Hittite, Tamar, Absalom, David, Amnon, Joab, Mephibosheth, Nathan and, above all, Bathsheba herself — and a couple of original minor characters are given room to grow and really come to life.
More than just the story is taken from the Old Testament; Lindgren's language has the cadence of biblical models and he handles the powerful (and easily misused) tool of mytho-poetic abstraction with skill.
While both Lindgren and Heym have used the text of the Old Testament as a launching pad, reading between the lines of the biblical account and offering their own guess at the reality behind the words, their novels evoke very different worlds.
dannyreviews.com /h/The_King_David_Report.html   (399 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Hash by Torgny Lindgren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One of Sweden's most revered authors, Torgny Lindgren takes you places you would never have expected to go.
"Lindgren is the prose laureate of Vasterbatten, the region in which Hash is set....The author's fantasies, indulged out of a duty he feels (and amply fulfils) to make his native region interesting, are grafted onto a brutal reality, finely observed....[His] Vasterbatten in this extraordinary and enthralling dark comedy has become a completely absorbing place."
Their adventures are narrated in a faux-naif style by a 107-year-old newspaper reporter, who was witness to the events as they occurred in 1947, and has waited to confront his own relationship to life and death, happiness and suffering, and the power of art to express life's ambiguities.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=28666&cgi=product&isbn=1585674087   (746 words)

  
 The New York Times > Books > Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry
The thesis of Torgny Lindgren's charming new novel sometimes seems to be: life isn't in the details -- it's in the entrails.
Lindgren is a prominent novelist in his native Sweden; he also turns out to be a first-rate food writer, rapturously describing the flavor of ''various organs and body parts,'' ways to cook squirrels after you've flayed and gutted them and the best method for dispatching a pig's head.
As the narrative alternates between the stir an unreliable reporter creates in his rest home and his tale of unlikely allies on a culinary quest, Lindgren delivers a story that's a clever sendup of the conceits of storytellers and a bittersweet meditation on life and the pleasures that bind us to it.
www.nytimes.com /2004/05/02/books/0509books-briefs.html?ei=5007&en=20b948471b906062&ex=1398830400&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1129323648-lKXj7rQg6sGTv/7/GwshaQ   (1142 words)

  
 Swedish Book Review : Review of
It also alludes to the positive qualities of the past when in a (real) village called Raggsjö they meet a young Torgny Lindgren who has mild tuberculosis and is pleased to think he may die before growing up to face the burdens of adulthood.
Ignoring the obvious repetition of circumstances, the writer's reply to the local council consists of a continuation of his story in partial interrogatory form, charging them with the responsibility for any loose ends that will never be known unless written down.
The whole short novel is firmly set in Lindgren's inimitable faux-naïf style, with an originality deserving of a wider audience.
www.swedishbookreview.com /showreview.asp?id=9113010441   (746 words)

  
 'Light' by Torgny Lindgren (Books) - American Poems
From the novel by Torgny Lindgren and adapted to the stage by Theatre de Complicite.
In this astonishing novel, Torgny Lindgren tells the story of a small village that is ravaged by the plague, and the chaotic moral void that the few surviving residents fall into when everything they know has been taken from them.
The story opens with one of the villagers traveling to a neighboring town to search for a woman he has dreamed of but never met, but whom he believes he is fated to marry.
www.americanpoems.com /0002711710/Light.php   (375 words)

  
 CRIME AND THE MEDIA by Lindgren, Torgny, 'Economist', Birtles, Jasmine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CRIME AND THE MEDIA by Lindgren, Torgny, 'Economist', Birtles, Jasmine
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This study explores the ramifications of this, focusing on such topics as media formats, institutional relations, and popular drama and fear.
www.studentbookworld.com /BookDetail/1855214334.html   (82 words)

  
 Alibris: Torgny Lindgren
In this most unusual novel by a prizewinning Swedish writer, two men go on a personal quest for true Swedish hash--a beloved national dish that varies drastically from region to region.
From the novel by Torgny Lindgren and adapted to the stage...
by Lindgren, Torgny, and Sandbach, Mary (Translated by)
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Lindgren,Torgny   (258 words)

  
 GEDDES TOM (in MARION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sweetness / Torgny Lindgren ; translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes.
The way of a serpent / Torgny Lindgren ; translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes.
Hash : a novel / Torgny Lindgren ; translated by Tom Geddes.
www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?A=GEDDES+TOM   (149 words)

  
 Lindgren Torgny - playwright
To search for published plays by Torgny Lindgren click on one of the bookstore links above.
You will be shown all Plays in print by Torgny Lindgren.
Torgny Lindgren : Click on a Play title below for more information
www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsL/LindgrenTorgny.htm   (118 words)

  
 Productions - Complicite
In this adaptation of Torgny Lindgren’s wittily bleak novel, a man goes on a journey in search of love and returns to his village carrying death in the form of a plague-ridden rabbit.
The village is ravaged by sickness and of those who survive no one any longer knows what is right and what is wrong.
That rule is subjected to a flly comic reductio ad absurdum, then put into reverse, then redemptivley resumed in Light, the agonisingly mordant and moving new show by Complicite, which has been adapted by Simon McBurney and Matthew Broughton from the novel of the same name by the Swedish author Torgny Lindgren...'
www.complicite.org /productions/detail.html?id=4   (263 words)

  
 World Literature Today: Torgny Lindgren. Polsan.(Book Review)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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TORGNY LINDGREN'S Polsan (Hash) is set in a fictitious province of Lappland where tuberculosis wad still rampant in the 1940s.
The eponymic dish is grayish brown and made of twice-ground offal residue boiled in vinegar.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:122924594&refid=holomed_1   (172 words)

  
 eBay - Book: Hash (ISBN: 1585674087)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"[C]harming....As the narrative alternates between the stir an unreliable reporter creates in his rest home and his tale of unlikely allies on a culinary quest, Lindgren delivers a story that's a clever sendup of the conceits of storytellers and a bittersweet meditation on life and the pleasures that bind us to it."
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 Alibris: Tom Geddes
A novel of love, war, and the search for mankind's ultimate dream.
Obsessed by his abnormality and fascinated by the mysteries of pain, Latour loses himself in a spiral of murder, and dissection, trying to fathom the secrets of the human body.
by Lingren, Torgny, and Geddes, Tom (Translated by)
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Geddes,Tom   (790 words)

  
 POCKET WORLD IN FIGURES by Lindgren, Torgny, 'Economist', Birtles, Jasmine, Goodman, Bryan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
POCKET WORLD IN FIGURES by Lindgren, Torgny, 'Economist', Birtles, Jasmine, Goodman, Bryan
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 ★ Reviews of books about sweden
They will enjoy this book more and more.
Then they will want to start reading other books by Astrid Lindgren.
Reform and Perspectives on Social Insurance: Lessons from the East and West: A Comparative Study of Social Insurance in China, Eu, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA
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