{"id":701,"date":"2008-06-02T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/02\/more-information-on-my-book-in-swedish\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T18:48:00","slug":"more-information-on-my-book-in-swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/02\/more-information-on-my-book-in-swedish\/","title":{"rendered":"More information on my book in Swedish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, I learned on Saturday that my book, <em>The Bible\u2019s Most Fascinating People<\/em>, is going to appear in Swedish in September.  Given Sweden\u2019s reputation for secularism, it is perhaps surprising that a book focused on Bible stories should find its way into that language.  But Wahlstr\u00f6m &#038; Widstrand is bringing out my book on September 18.  The book was translated by Gunhild Winqvist Hollman.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, Wahlstr\u00f6m &#038; Widstrand is a large publisher in Sweden established in 1885 by Per Karl Wahlstr\u00f6m and Wilhelm Widstrand, two booksellers in Stockholm. Their company started publishing fiction in the 1890\u2019s. Non-Swedish authors introduced to Sweden by Wahlstr\u00f6m &#038; Widstrand include Herman Hesse, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, Maxim Gorky and Henri Bergson as well as later authors such as Franz Kafka, William Styron and Joseph Heller. Numerous acclaimed Swedish writers have been discovered by the them, and it has also published several Nobel Prize winners such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Joseph Brodsky, Jos\u00e9 Saramago and V. S. Naipaul. Now, remarkably, my work is about to be introduced by them to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>While I don\u2019t think my book is in the same class as Solzhenitsyn\u2019s work, I must admit to feeling incredibly pleased to know that I\u2019m being published by his publisher, since he\u2019s one of my favorite authors.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, I learned on Saturday that my book, The Bible\u2019s Most Fascinating People, is going to appear in Swedish in September. Given Sweden\u2019s reputation for secularism, it is perhaps surprising that a book focused on Bible stories should &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/02\/more-information-on-my-book-in-swedish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}