101 Ways to Kill Your Husband by Laura Lindstedt & Sinikka Vuola, a nominee for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, is travelling to Hungary and Denmark, where it will be published by Polar and Jensen and Dalgaard respectively.
101 Ways to Kill Your Husband by Laura Lindstedt & Sinikka Vuola, our Oulipo title nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, is travelling to Hungary, where it will be published by Polar, and to Denmark, where it will be published by Jensen & Dalgaard.
101 Ways to Kill Your Husband owes its title to a real-life case: in 1981, Anja B. from Finland took a shotgun to her Norwegian husband Thorvald’s chest and fired. He died immediately. On the 5th of May 1983 history was made as the District Court of Oslo not only released her from the murder charges but found her late husband guilty because of the physical abuse he had inflicted on her for years.
The book serves us Anja B.’s story via different methods and various narrative styles that are in turn witty, surprising, touching, skilful, or garnished with a dose of gallows humour. The authors break the dismal convention of crime stories that begin with the discovery of the body of a young woman. This time, it is the violent husband who dies – 101 times over.
101 Ways to Kill Your Husband’s world French rights are with Gallimard.
Polar is a Hungarian publishing house who delivers high-quality literature on the Hungarian market. It is, among others, the Hungarian home of A Wooden Prayer and Beasts of the Sea.
Jensen & Dalgaard is the Danish publisher of quality Finnish fiction, including the works of Leena Krohn, A Wooden Prayer by Antti Hurskainen, and Selja Ahava’s Before My Husband Disappears.
Congratulations to the authors and the publishers!