»Lars Mytting: “Astrid’s Legacy” – in conversation with Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel about the Sister Bells trilogy«
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Happy World Book Day!
With “Astrid’s Legacy” the sister bell trilogy, after “The Bell in the Lake” and “A Riddle on a Blue-Black Background”, finds its grand conclusion.
Lars Mytting brings the story of a Norwegian valley in 1880 and a family characterized by resistant women and men with a pioneering spirit to its conclusion. The protagonists leave traditional myths and superstitions behind, defy hardship and war and set off into a new time: the Norwegian village of Butangen in 1936. Astrid Hekne, a descendant of the Hekne sisters, traces her past. There is always talk of a tapestry that the two sisters are said to have worked on four hundred years ago until their deaths. Prophecies are woven into it. World War II breaks out and the Germans occupy Norway.
Lars Mytting , born in 1968, comes from Fåvang in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, and is a Norwegian editor, journalist and author who has been writing the bestseller since 2014: “The Man and the Wood. About Felling, Chopping, Making Fires”, “The Birches Still Know” and the two novels “The Bell in the Lake” and “A Mystery on a Blue-Black Background”, which together with Astrid's legacy form a trilogy. Mytting received the British Book Industry Award in 2016 and the Dobloug Prize in 2022 - an award from the Svenska Academies for Fine Literature and Literary Studies.
Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel translates fiction, plays and poetry from Norwegian, French and Italian. In 2017 he received the Translator Prize from the Kunststiftung NRW.
With the kind support of NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad)!