Thursday, May 01, 2014

Is Scandinavian Crime Making Way for Scandinavian Farce?


Argentina and France have had a long and dynamic literary relationship, one that took center stage at last month's Salon du Livre in Paris.
Roger Tagholm muses on the mini-boom in look-alike light fiction titles from Scandinavia with similar marketing and elderly protagonists.
More from PP:
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi won the $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Literature, commonly referred to as the Arabic Booker.
Tune into the Live Stream on Friday:
Porter Anderson goes over panelist viewpoints ahead of the Publishing Perspectives live stream (May 2) of the Muse Town Hall on literary fiction and digital.
From the Archives:
Despite the growth of online bookselling and a 7X increase in the number of ebooks, Argentina’s 2,256 bookstores are still responsible for 80% of annual book sales.
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