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Politiken interview in english
Submitted by totil on 14 February, 2010 - 16:16.
By Tine Maria Winther, Politiken book editor, Reykjavik
In the three storey bookshop on Laugavegur, the main street of Reykjavik "Fathers big secret" is ready for Christmas season.
The children's book about siblings whose father is a cannibal is number eight on the bestseller list, and author Thorarinn Leifsson is quite happy, he says as he fetches me from the entrance of the book store in his green Nissan Micra.
The interview was almost cancelled, first the author had Swine flu, then he got a blod clot in his leg.
"How is the leg? I enquire as i take a seat in the Micra.
"How do you know about that?", he replies.
"I have been in iceland since last night …".
"I see", he replies. "News travel fast up here."
Interview in denmarks most important newspaper
Submitted by totil on 10 January, 2010 - 17:02.
Thórarinn Leifsson gained impressive coverage in the Danish newspaper Politiken in the middle of december 2009 on account of his children's book Leyndarmálið hans pabba (Father's Big Secret): not only was there a two-page interview in the paper's literary supplement, but Leifsson's drawings also graced the front pages of both the main paper and the literary supplement. The Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið reported Leifsson's reaction: “I think I'm in shock, I didn't realise it would be as big as this [...]. I would be satisfied with this kind of coverage once every ten years.” His latest book Bókasafn Ömmu Huldar (Grandmother's Library) will be published in Denmark in the autumn.
(Text loosely based on Fabulous Iceland news)
Books
Submitted by totil on 9 September, 2009 - 14:05.Grandmother’s Library (October 2009)
Albertina lives in a peculiar world. There are no books and the special educational machines in school only teach about loan interests rates.
The Internet has been prohibited for years and the Gold Bank has gained control of most of the world. Finally grownups start to disappear one by one.
That's when Grandmother Huld turns up with an enormous library of books and dangerous knowledge. From now on nothing stays the same.
Great success with critics in Denmark
Submitted by totil on 19 July, 2009 - 15:10.
Success!Hallucinant firecracker, pure icelandic madness, amusing read, well done, incredibly funny …
These are but a few examples from the numerous good reviews since Fathers Big Secret was released in Denmark on 28th may this spring.
Politiken, Denmark's by far most important cultural newspaper brought a review by Steffen Larsen, a well known critic.
Good review in a German newspaper
Submitted by totil on 16 October, 2008 - 23:20.
The german newspaper Sozialistische Tageszeitung reviewed Fathers Big Secret
in a special Frankfurt Book Fair supplement. The book will be on sale in Germany next week.
Farvel, farvel
Submitted by totil on 13 October, 2008 - 16:45.The Emperor's New Clothes
Submitted by totil on 9 October, 2008 - 21:55.Is the Cannibal going to swallow Europe?
Submitted by totil on 28 September, 2008 - 16:39.
Now when the book launch at Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag in Germany is only a few days away and orders from German speaking web-shops have started to come in, the terrible news of yet another
publisher falling prey to the cannibal come to us. Forlaget Torgard has bought the rights to Father's Big Secret to be published in Denmark next year.
Sold to Germany, selling to …
Submitted by totil on 29 June, 2008 - 23:56.
Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag has bought the rights to Fathers big secret for the German speaking countries. The book has already been translated by Doctor Hartmut Mittelstädt in Greifswald and will be in the bookstores in September.






