Carsten Jensen Interview
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Carsten Jensen
We, the Drowned
Carsten Jensen - author of We, the Drowned - talks to
The Interview Online about his now famous novel, which has
already won the Danske Banks Litteraturpris, the Danish equivalent
of The Man Booker Prize.
Five years in the writing, this nearly 700 page epic
(beautifully translated by Charlotte Barslund and Emma Ryder)
tells a host of tales and adventures about a
community of Danish sailors whose home was a small island in the
Baltic.
Over the century which the novel spans, we follow the "Boys from
Marstal" literally all over the world. The expression "worse
things happen at sea" was never more appropriate.
In this audio slideshow which includes archive photographs from
the Danish Maritime Museum.
Selected as one of the Finantial Times Best Books of the
Year
Interview & Photos
NB/TIO
