The Diary of a Parish Clerk - by Steen Steensen Blicher (Hardcover)

About the Book

The 19th Century Danish writer, Steen Steensen Blicher deserves to stand alonngside the great writers of world literature, from Boccaccio to Manupassant, and this selection of his work will make a group of his most important stories available in the English-speaking world. These reveal not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the 19th Century. Although the subject matter is deeply and truely that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless and he deploys the true storyteller's art.

Book Synopsis

The nineteenth-century Danish writer, Steen Steensen Blicher deserves to stand alongside the great writers of world literature, from Boccaccio to Maupassant, and this selection of his work will make a group of his most important stories available in the English-speaking world. These reveal not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the nineteenth century. Although his subject matter is deeply and truly that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless and he deploys the true storytellers art.

About the Author

Paula Hostrup-Jessen was born in London in 1930, where she studied medicine. After moving to Denmark in 1963, she has worked as a freelance translator. Several of her translations of nineteenth-century and contemporary Danish classics have appeared in Britian and the USA. In 1990 she was awarded the Danish Writers Association's prize for literary translation. In 1996 she was awarded the Blicher Prize.