REVIEW: 'Growth of the Soil' by Knut Hamsun, 1917

Hamsun won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this book in 1920 and one can see why. With an astounding sparseness of language Hamsun manages to tell the story of the birth of a district in northern Norway, starting with the arrival of the first settler. If you thought you would never be able to relate to early 20th century farmers in remote Norway, think again. You will know these characters, and love them for all their humanity. Hamsun influenced Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Fante, Bukowski and countless others with this book. You should read it too.

Joran C.A. Monteiro

Short story published on Queen Vic Knives

Hi All,

A short story I wrote, 'No-one ever heard the shot', has been published on Queen Vic Knives.

Check it here. Make sure to also check the other posts on this Melbourne online lit. mag! Some choice poetry and fiction to be enjoyed!

And remember to share this with others!

Onward ever,

Joran

Blues Fiction archived online by National Library of Australia

Hi All,

This blog has now been archived by the National Library of Australia's PANDORA program. See the email and links below.

The blog will now regularly be digitally archived by the NLA. You can find the archived blog here

My first poetry collection 'The Monkey Shits in Its Hand' has now been added to the Monash University Library collection here

"Dear Joran

 

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I am delighted to inform you that your publication is now publicly available in the PANDORA Archive at http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-119730

 

Access to your publication in the Archive is facilitated in two ways: via the Library’s online catalogue; and via subject and title lists maintained on the PANDORA home page http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html.

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Web Archiving Section

National Library of Australia"

Very Cool stuff. Needless to say, I am quite proud. It is nice to be able to search on your name in a library catalogue and have the search actually come up with stuff.

Onward ever.

Cheers,

Joran