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Author Linda Olsson visits House of Sweden
Posted by Susanna at 12:27 PM, Apr 4, 2009 (Comments)
Category: Events
Swedish Author Linda Olsson
ON THURSDAY NIGHT, April 2, Swedish author Linda Olsson visited the House of Sweden to talk about her books "Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs/Astrid and Veronica" and "Sonata for Miriam." Linda Olsson, who was born in Sweden, now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
HER DEBUT NOVEL, "Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs," was released in English in 2006. In the United States, the book was published under the title "Astrid and Veronica" and in Sweden with the title "Nu vill jag sjunga dig milda sånger."
LINDA WAS IN the U.S. to promote her last novel "Sonata for Miriam," published by Penguin USA in February 2009. "Sonata for Miriam" has received good reviews. Alan Gold of The Australian wrote: "Sonata for Miriam is a skillfully balanced book, a work of considerable literary merit and musical integrity. Olsson has written the book as though it were a sonata, with musical cadences throughout. Her short, staccato chapters cleverly replicate a Bach partita or a Mendelssohn sonata in their harmonics, their themes and their recapitulations. And the coda comes with as much drama as any finale of Beethoven."
IN TALKING ABOUT her books, Linda Olsson summed up her view on life: "Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; there are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then also look for it carefully. Don't allow it to slip between your fingers. Sometimes, good things come to us in such a quiet fashion. And nothing comes complete. It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. What we choose to see, what we choose to save. And what we choose to remember. Never forget that all the love in your life is there, inside you, always."
THE BOOK PARTY was arranged by SWEA (the Swedish Women's Education Association) Washington, D.C. and SACC (the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce) Washington, D.C.
View from House of Sweden over the Potomac River.
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