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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4628 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 1 of 16 04 June 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
I've already asked this question in the Learning Techniques, in an L-R context, but having got no response, perhaps I should widen it out to just a question on books. (I can worry about audiobooks, etc, at a later stage): As a native English speaker, I'm looking for good choices of Danish books to look for, for which I have a fair chance of finding a good English translation. I'm fairly open to suggestions, and as a pretty much beginner, am looking for things which are not too complicated. While I'm not too proud to read some children's literature, I would not like to confine myself to this. They should have been originally written in Danish, and not be translations of original English works. (When I read my TL, I'm also tying to get a taste of the culture, not just the language). So my wish list could include: - Some children's fiction - simple crime stories, whodunnits, thrillers - love stories, romance, etc. - comedy, comic novels - some proper "literature", where the language level is not too high or complicated - anything else I might have forgotten :-) . . . Tak på forhånd mine danske venner. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5760 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 2 of 16 04 June 2012 at 9:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I saw an English translation of "Vi, de druknede" the other day. Seems like quite an
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6709 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 16 05 June 2012 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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You can't go wrong with H.C. Andersen. Karen Blixen, Søren Kierkegaard, Aksel Sandemose and Peter Høeg aren't bad choices either. Hanne-Vibeke Holst has written a few political novels.
A random search for popular Danish authors gave me this page: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/danish-authors Hope this helps. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4628 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 4 of 16 05 June 2012 at 3:31am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks Jeff. Had forgotten about Karen Blixen, although the name was well known after the "Out of Africa" film came out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4628 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 5 of 16 05 June 2012 at 2:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found a Danish internet bookshop, which I will pass on for anyone else following a
similar path: http://www.saxo.com/dk/ Some free E-books, although a lot of those are in English, and the rest a bit specialised. There are audiobooks also, but they only seem to be in English. Nevertheless, plenty of choice of real books, e.g. Karen Blixen. ...oops, tell a lie. Found at least one audiobook (on CD): Elefantpassernes børn, Peter Høeg. Just that they don't seem to have an E-book listing category among their Danish books. EDIT:: Oh, and they have "Vi, de druknede", @lichtrausch Edited by montmorency on 06 June 2012 at 12:19am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5360 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 6 of 16 05 June 2012 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have you tried starting at the library? It will depend where you live, but I was surprised that the library in Hove had a fairly impressive collection of foreign language books including a handfull in the scandinavian languages. (Hove is quite small, but cosmopolitan. In many places you will presumably get nothing but gardening manuals and romances)
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4628 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 7 of 16 06 June 2012 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
Good thought. My nearest library does indeed have a foreign languages section, although it only seemed a shadow of its former self last time I looked. Interestingly though, it had added a lot of titles in oriental languages, and I think Polish, presumably reflecting changes to the local population. While I'm posting, I'll add a link I found thanks to YouTube poster roedgroedudenfloede, which is: http://www.abebooks.co.uk Mostly 2nd hand books I think ... certainly cheap, and I noticed they had quite a few English translations of Danish authors, as well as German authors of interest to me, in both German and translation, for a very reasonably price. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5647 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 16 01 July 2012 at 7:48am | IP Logged | ||
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The libraries in Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany have no Danish books to read. Only Flensburg has a Danish library.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 26 October 2012 at 6:43am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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