A conversation with translator Annalisa Maurantonio (2010)
By Pål H. Christiansen Annalisa Maurantonio is a freelance translator – doing it for her own sake and not on commitment. She chooses books she would like to translate or would like to see translated into Italian. That’s how she started translating my novel “Drømmer om storhet” (Sogni di Grandezza, Hic Sunt Leones Press 2010).…
Felix Janosa – writer of the German Fjodor songs
“Auf der Fahrt nach Hiva Oa” is already in the Lilipuz-Charts and all Fjodorfans will surely sing along with Bobby Berg und die Landratten “Fjodor, Fjodor macht Radau, Fjodor frecher Kabeljau”! Felix Janosa, who is also the composer for the Ritter Rost musicals, has written all these songs. We have asked him some questions about…
“I’m like Hobo Highbrow”
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy about being a novel character and obsessed fans “The Scoundrel Days of Hobo Highbrow”, the English translation of Pål H. Christiansen’s novel “Drømmer om storhet”, will finally be published in October this year. The English title of the book alludes to an a-ha song and album from the year 1986 because Hobo Highbrow,…
“There is a little Fjodor in all of us”
Pål H. Christiansen about his books for children Interview by Annette Schwindt and Thomas Reis (December 2007) How did you get the idea to write about a cod and a little boy becoming friends? Pål H. Christiansen: I found the idea for “Fjodor går bananas” in a text I wrote twenty years ago. At that…
Paul from albums to book
In the new novel “Drømmer om Storhet” Paul Waaktaar of a-ha has been given a place in Norwegian literature. As a partly fictional character. To call Pål H. Christiansen’s “Drømmer om Storhet” a novel about Paul Waaktaar would be an exaggeration. It’s first and foremost about Hobo Highbrow, a failed writer and proofreader who loses…