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With Stieg Larsson as the best ambassador of Nordic literature live their year in the Book Fair and arouses passions among readers. The key to success lies not only in crime novels, but a few writers who know how to enter global social misery directly, entertaining and poetic. It was a year ago when Stieg Larsson and the first part of the Millennium trilogy, "Men Who Hate Women" broke in Spain. Two years earlier, had been discovered in France and Italy, which have long successfully translating Norse literature sales.
A Spain has taken longer to arrive due largely to the shortage of translators, but Diego Moreno, editor of Nordic, one of seven independent publishers group the Association Context, no doubt about the success and importance acquire in a year or two writers of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway). "It's one of the best literature of the world, is entertaining but also very interesting because it talks about social problems and deep feelings for an affordable price," he told Efe Moreno, who says that thanks to the efforts of Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, both Swedish and writers of crime novels, readers are starting aa leap to other genres. It is precisely the model developed in the Nordic society is not free from conflicts such as the mistreatment of women which, according to Moreno, most calls
to the reader. "These are countries that we admire but thanks to literature to discover our common problems." One of the best attested data this 'boom' Nordic is the number of titles. Just two years ago, there were the fingers of one hand the books of each of these countries, "Today it has increased tenfold," says Moreno, who stands at the beginning of the sixties phenomena of this literature. Then he published a lot but with little success because the issues were not very good until the early nineties when the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder in "Sophie's World" and the first cases of the Swedish inspector Kurt Wallander of Mankell revolutionized Norse literature in Spain. "Now there is a third wave," says Moreno, and that seems to be that Mankell has not been dropped but the crest has been raised as none Larsson in Arnaldur Indridason Icelandic company with "The Woman in Green" has sold at a fair week over a hundred copies only in the house that published in Castilian, RBA, according to Efe account Esther Romero, one of the comerciales.También RBA succeeds in Swedish marriage Sjöwall Maj and Per Wahlöö, inspiring true Scandinavian crime novels in the sixties and this year stand out in the Madrid Book Fair with the series of detective Martin Beck. Based on the success of Larsson, publishers have a clear commitment by the Norse, especially thrillers: Camilla Lamberg, Jens Lapidus, Asa Larsson and John Ajvide Linqvist can be seen in many booths. Non-criminal but driven by it, "the reader is falling for other writers of the first level," says Moreno. As "essential" Arto Pasilina Finnish, Norwegian Kjell Askildsen or Sjon, perhaps the greatest writer in the current Icelandic letters. The latter, "The Arctic fox" and a selection of Nordic writers present stories with the title "Women of the Fjords" are two books that are having more success in the Nordic booth where they recommend "Letters Finnish" Angel Ganivet to enter the Nordic society paradigm. Among the women writers has opened a gap in sales this fair "Babette's Feast" by Isak Dinesen Danish, known as "Out of Africa."
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