SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION FROM MINNESOTA
Thanks are due to The Rap Sheet for the information that Barbara Fister, the mastermind behind the Carnival of Criminal Minds has created a new website devoted to Scandinavian Crime Fiction.
Barbara said that 'since I work at a Swedish heritage college in Minnesota with a Scandinavian studies program, I thought we had an obligation to host a site for Scandinavian crime fiction."
You can view Barbara's site here and you will find lots of links to interesting articles and reviews. There is also a companion blog here.
The start up funding for the project was provided by a Research Scholarship and Creativity grant from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, and Barbara also thanks the encyclopedic Karen Meek 'whose Eurocrime website was an invaluable resource'.
posted by Uriah Robinson at 2:11 AM
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Being the Thane of the Thirty Years' War as well as the King of Camilleri, you probably knew all about Gustavus Adolphus. I, on the other hand, had to teach myself about him thanks to Barbara's effort. Quite a man, king and general, it appears.
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If you go to Sweden do go to the superb Vasa Museum which commemorates one of the low points of naval design. The Vasa was Sweden's Titanic going down in Stockholm harbour in 1628.
In my youth two of my 'favourite generals' were allegedly shot accidentally by their own side, Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen and Thomas Jonathan Jackson at Chancellorsville.
Years later when I owned a multiple surgery dental practice I knew how they felt.
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