As part of our #diverseauthorday Greenacre Writers want to
continue the trend and will be posting interesting books and linking to book
reviewers.
Danish poet and writer Naja Marie Aidt was born in 1963. Her
first book of poetry While I’m Still
Young, was published in 1991 prompting Aidt into full time writing shortly
after. She won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize in 2006 for her short
story collection Baboon and first
novel Rock, Paper, Scissors(2015) was translated from the Danish by K E Semmel.
The following quote is from a review written by Tony Malone
for WORDS without BORDERS:
“With many readers praising Naja Marie Aidt’s short story
collection Baboon (Two Lines Press; translated by
Denise Newman), it was not a huge surprise to see the efforts of writer and
translator alike rewarded with the PEN Translation Prize earlier this
year. Those who enjoyed Aidt’s slices of the darker side of life will be happy
to see her vision extended over a broader canvas in her first novel, Rock, Paper, Scissors (Open Letter; translated by K.E.
Semmel). This book is centered on the extravagantly-named Thomas O’Mally
Lindström, the owner of an upmarket stationery supplies shop, with the story
starting after his father, Jacques, an inveterate criminal, has passed away in
prison while awaiting trial for an unspecified crime.”
Tony Malone has been
reviewing works of literary fiction in translation for over six years and has
reviewed over seven hundred books. His site Tony’s Reading List comprises
reviews on books originally written in German, French and Japanese and is
expanding to works from Korea.
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