Day: 20 January 2022

The latest addition to my website is Johan Bojer‘s Den store hunger (The Great Hunger). Bojer write about the poor and downtrodden. This book is about Peer Holm, the illegitimate son (as was Bojer himself) of a well-to-do army officer). He was farmed out to poor foster-parents in the Lofoten Islands, where the main activity … Read more

Every year around this time, I read only books from one country. As we are hoping to visit Norway for the first time later this year, I have selected this country. Norwegian literature is too vast to give anything more than a relatively brief summary, which I shall do, focussing on authors and works available … Read more