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Jussi Adler-Olsen–A CONSPIRACY OF FAITH
Note: This novel was WINNER of the Scandinavian Glasnoglen (Glass Key) Award for Best Crime Novel in Scandinavia when it was released in Denmark in 2010. It will be released in English on May 28. “His...
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Thomas E. Kennedy–KERRIGAN IN COPENHAGEN
Note: Thomas E. Kennedy was WINNER of the Frank Expatriate Writing Award in 2002, his citation saying, “Kennedy has done for Copenhagen what Joyce did for Dublin.” “Kerrigan Kerrigan Whither rovest...
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Jussi Adler-Olsen–THE PURITY OF VENGEANCE
“Yes, I played a part in sending antisocial, feeble-minded girls with deviant sexual tendencies to Sprogo. Yes, they were sterilized. And you would do well to thank me for not having to contend with...
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Dorthe Nors–KARATE CHOP
“She started frequenting cemeteries that summer, preferring the ones others rarely visited. She could go straight from social events with white wine, canapés, and peripheral acquaintances, cycle to the...
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Jonas T. Bengtssen–A FAIRY TALE
Note: Jonas T. Bengtsson has been WINNER of the BG Bank First Book Award and WINNER of the Per Olov Enqvist Literary Prize. This novel was a FINALIST for the Danish Radio Literature Prize for Best...
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Tete-Michel Kpomassie–AN AFRICAN IN GREENLAND
Note: This novel was WINNER of the Prix Littéraire Francophone International in 1981, and its English translation was one of The New York Times‘ Notable Books of the Year in 1983. It is a New York...
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Thomas E. Kennedy–BENEATH THE NEON EGG
Note: Thomas E. Kennedy was WINNER of the Expatriate Writing Award in 2002, his citation saying, “Kennedy has done for Copenhagen what Joyce did for Dublin.” Kennedy is also a two-time WINNER of the...
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Jussi Adler-Olsen–THE MARCO EFFECT
“Taking such radical steps is certainly no easy decision…[but] the few must be sacrificed for the many, as they say…The bank will be safeguarded and consolidated, society will go on as before,...
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Naja Marie Aidt–ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
Note: Danish author Naja Marie Aidt, who was born in Greenland and spent her early years there, was WINNER of both the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize and the Danish Critics Prize for Literature in...
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Dorthe Nors–MIRROR, SHOULDER, SIGNAL
Note: This novel was SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. “Folke places his hand over hers. Sonja can now feel both the gearstick and Folke’s hand. Then he begins to move their...
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