Torbjorn Flygt

"A post-war masterpiece of European fiction—full of raw energy, rage, humor, and masterful prose. Bernhard is my favorite writer, and this is spectacular."

"If you ask me, Jacobsen is Scandinavia’s best now living novelist. “Child Wonder” is a gripping tale about a boy’s upbringing in Oslo with his single mother. If you read any one of Jacobsen’s novels you’ll become a member of his fan club."

"A dystopian novel about women too old to become pregnant, only valuable for a Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. Scary and thoughtful, of course, and beautifully written by an enviably talented writer."

"A woman wakes up in a lodge in the Alps. Her friends are gone. A glass wall separates her from the outside world. What has happened? Haushofer doesn’t give any answers. Written during the cold war and under the shadow of the threat of a nuclear war, “The Wall” is no less worth reading today."

"I love reading plays. It gives you the essence of a story, the skeleton on which you create your own images and characters. Norén is Sweden’s most internationally acclaimed playwright since Strindberg. He had his breakthrough with two Eugene O’Neill inspired plays."

"“What, is he crazy? Should I get a job and destroy the best years of my life?” A boy, a father, a grandfather live in an old house in the woods, spending their days with feeding the tigers they keep in the barn with hot dogs, swimming in the garage they turned into a pool, riding a giraffe. A children’s book far more anarchic than “Pippi Longstocking” —and more fun, too. Also for grown-ups."

"Professor Beard is a Suetonius for our time. But instead of writing about emperors for university graduates, she brings ordinary roman people to life, for us—ordinary readers."

"I’m not that keen on contrafactual books. Erpenbeck’s novel is something different, though. By letting people die and then come to life again in the next chapter, she tells an epic family story covering an essential part of Europe’s 20th century."