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Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1995–2025.

I diktet har du fått eit evig liv

I diktet har du fått eit evig liv

William Shakespeare; Dylan Thomas; R.S. Thomas; George Mackay Brown

Efrem Forlag
2024
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Å dikte er ein strid på liv og død, og det diktaren kjempar mot, er sin eigen undergang. Livet er forgjengeleg, og det gjeld å halde fast på det vakre, det opphavlege og reine. Diktarane i denne samlinga kjempar mot undergangen på kvar sin måte. Dei er fire diktarar frå dei britiske øyane, frå England, Skottland og Wales, med kvar si særeigne stemme og biletverd. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) held i sine sonettar fast på biletet av sin kjære. Kven denne kjære er, veit vi ikkje. Men dei fire hundre år gamle dikta står som lysande freistnader på å halde dette biletet fast i rim og rytme. For Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) er det diktarens eige sinn, i møte med det forgjengelege livet og den trugande døden, som får sitt uttrykk i dikt. Vi kan nesten kjenne den glødande intensiteten i striden, der Thomas kjempar over skrivebordet, medan haugen av samankrølla ark blir større og større på golvet. For Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-2000) er det sjølve det menneskelege som er truga av undergang i møte med den moderne verda. Thomas nærer djup forakt for alt det moderne, som han omtalar som maskina. Stilt overfor maskina, freistar han trassig å halde fast på det ekte og opphavlege. Det er Orknøyane som er George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) sin arena. Bileta hans er så reine at berre det vesentlege står att, og lesaren kan stige inn i dei med sine eigne assosiasjonar. Utval og gjendikting er ved Hans Johan Sagrusten.
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Magnus

Magnus

George Mackay Brown

Birlinn Ltd
2019
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Halvin toimitettuna 18,90 €

First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown’s tour de force – his most poetic and innovative book. He links the twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney’s brutal murder at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson, to that of the philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis during World War II. This is a unique exploration of the eternal questions of guilt, goodness and personal sacrifice.
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Six Lives of Fankle the Cat

Six Lives of Fankle the Cat

George Mackay Brown

Kelpies
2012
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Halvin toimitettuna 17,90 €

When the shopkeeper gives Jenny a skinny, black kitten she has no idea who she has adopted. Fankle is no ordinary cat. The fiercely clever feline has lived six lives so far: lives of adventure, danger, fortune and poverty. He's stared down angry pirates, started a blood feud, won a war, advised an empress and leapt onto the moon. Fankle tells Jenny tales of his former lives -- with the king of pirates, in ancient Egypt and even with the Empress of China. So what is he doing living in a crofter's cottage in Orkney? This classic novel by George Mackay Brown is a rich and rewarding read for adults and children alike.
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An Orkney Tapestry

An Orkney Tapestry

George Mackay Brown

BIRLINN GENERAL
2021
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First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk tale, short story, drama and environmental writing. The book, written at an early stage in the author’s career, explores themes that appear in his later work and was a landmark in Brown’s development as a writer. Above all, it is a celebration of Orkney's people, language and history. This edition reproduces Sylvia Wishart’s beautiful illustrations, commissioned for the original hardback. Made available again for the first time in over 40 years, this new edition sits alongside Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain as an important precursor of environmental writing by the likes of Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Malachy Tallack and, most recently, Amy Liptrot.
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Christmas Stories

Christmas Stories

George Mackay Brown

Galileo Publishers
2020
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George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He died there in 1996. His many awards include a Society of Authors Travel Award, 1968; SAC Literature Prize, 1969; Katherine Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize, 1971; Hon. LLD from Dundee University, 1977; OBE, 1974; James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1987 (for The Golden Bird). He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1994 for his novel Beside the Ocean of Time. He grew up in fairly straitened circumstances as his father was unable to work through illness. Mackay Brown himself suffered from tuberculosis as a young man. In his twenties he worked as a journalist on the Orkney Herald, but at the age of 30 he left Orkney to study at Newbattle Abbey College, near Edinburgh, where he met Edwin Muir, who was Warden at the time, a meeting that had a profound influence on him. He left behind him an extraordinary body of work: novels, short stories, poetry, journalism and even two operatic collaborations with Peter Maxwell Davis. A Winter Collection gathers together some of the Winter and Christmas stories and poems that he either published separately in newspapers, included in limited edition book printings, or published in Winter Tales, which is now unavailable. His first book of poems "The Storm" is also published by Galileo, with an introduction by Kathleen Jamie.
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Beside the Ocean of Time

Beside the Ocean of Time

George Mackay Brown

BIRLINN GENERAL
2019
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Halvin toimitettuna 20,90 €

In this beautiful and haunting novel, Brownâ??s lyrical descriptions and gift for local colour capture, as ever, the myth-drenched magic of his native islands. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Greenvoe

Greenvoe

George Mackay Brown

BIRLINN GENERAL
2019
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In the end Operation Black Star fails, but not before it has ruined the island; but the book ends on a note of hope as the islanders return to celebrate the ritual rebirth of Hellya.
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Vinland

Vinland

George Mackay Brown

BIRLINN GENERAL
2019
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Vinland follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Struggling to understand the conflicts of his home, Ranald seeks adventure and knowledge across the seas, his journeys taking him as far as Norway, Iceland and Ireland. Through
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Vinland

Vinland

George Mackay Brown

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
2008
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Vinland, George Mackay Brown's fourth novel, follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmunson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Lore and legend, the elemental pull of the sea and the land, the sweetness of the early religion and the darker, more ancient rites, weave through this exquisite celebration of Orcadian history and the inexorable seasons of life.
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