Scandinavian Poetry and Fiction
translated by Roger Greenwald

PUBLISHED in 2002

* * * WINNER * * *
2004 Lewis Galantière Award
of the American Translators Association

NORTH IN THE WORLD:
SELECTED POEMS OF ROLF JACOBSEN

Translated, Edited, and Introduced by Roger Greenwald

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Bilingual edition: Norwegian (Bokmål) and English.
ISBN 0-226-39035-7 (cloth; sewn binding; alkaline paper)
356 pages. List: US $35.00 / Amazon: US $22.05

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PUBLISHED in 2000

* * * WINNER * * *
The American-Scandinavian Foundation
Translation Prize

* * * FINALIST * * *
2001 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

THROUGH NAKED BRANCHES:
SELECTED POEMS OF TARJEI VESAAS

Translated, Edited and Introduced by Roger Greenwald

Princeton University Press, 2000
Bilingual edition: 46 poems in Norwegian (Nynorsk) and English.
ISBN 0-691-00897-3 (paper)
196 pages. List: US $16.95 / Amazon: US $11.53

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THE BOAT ON LAND
 
Roger Greenwald introduces the poetry of Tarjei Vesaas and Rolf Jacobsen and reads his English translations of selected poems (as well as two poems in Norwegian).

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THE TIME IN MALMÖ ON THE EARTH
by Jacques Werup (poems from Swedish)
Translated and Introduced by Roger Greenwald
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1989. English only.

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A STORY ABOUT MR. SILBERSTEIN
by Erland Josephson (novel)
Translated by Roger Greenwald
Evanston: Hydra Books / Northwestern University Press, 1995.

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Yes, that’s the Erland Josephson you know and admire in Bergman’s and Tarkovsky’s films (and many others). He has been an author all his life; this book is the fourth of nine novels he has published (then there are the short stories, radio plays, poems, and memoirs). For more information, click on the title.

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I MISS YOU, I MISS YOU!
by Peter Pohl and Kinna Gieth
(novel for young adults, from Swedish)
Translated by Roger Greenwald
New York: R&S Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999
This novel won the prestigious AUGUST PRIZE in Sweden.