Our authors are:
Karin Brunk Holmquist
Eva F Dahlgren
Ernsjöö Rappe / Sjögren
Kenneth Olof Filipsson
Mark Fredel
Vibecke Groth
Catarina Hurtig
Kristina Hård
Ritta Jacobsson
Lis Vibeke Kristensen
Håkan Lindquist
Mian Lodalen
Vibekes Marx
Bodil Mårtensson
Daniel Möllberg
Tilde de Paula
Lennart Ramberg
Annika Ruth Persson
Jennie Sjögren
Karin Stensdotter
Anders Widén
Inger Wolf
LIS VIBEKE KRISTENSEN
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
Chokoladedøden
Danish Dina, celebrated actress and Director of Theatre, is used to having hold over both herself and her surroundings – until the day when, after a successful dress rehearsel, she has a major stroke. The 36 square metres in the nursing home is definitley not much for a woman of big gestures. Uninterested nurses, disgusting liver paste sandwiches and a daughter who wishes to be somewhere else doesn’t make things any better. She prefers a sweet death.
Philippe is a middleaged Parisien, Doctor in Religious Studies and an editor at a big French publishing house. He is a vain and powerful man with that stroke of unattainability that some women find irresistable. But he has no talent for human relations. And definitley not for love. Philippe commits a crime that transforms his life into a night-mare and he can only find one way to atone for his crime; to die by his own hands. But he doesn’t want to do the ordinary thing like jumping in front of a train or the like. He wants to die with style.
Dina and Philippe meet in a chat room for suiciders - something that widely will influence the rest of their lives. Death by Chocolate is at the same time a wild, tragical and humouristic novel about two souls finding tenderness and comfort in a deep and different love story.
Death by chocolate was published by Modtryk in the autumn 2006.
It is just so sparkling between those two, everything is so tragicomical until the seriousness appears in the last haikuish lines... Weekend Avisen Berlingske
Reviews of Lis Vibeke Kristensen’s latest book, A map to get lost (Modtryk, 2005):
Such a compelling story as Lis Vibeke Kristensen’s “A map to get lost”, goes straight to your heart. I disappeared into Lis Vibeke Kristensen’s novel and didn’t come up to the surface until the last page was turned.
Weekendavisen
Lis Vibeke Kristensen worked as a dramaturg, director, and head of theatres in her native Denmark, in Sweden and the US before embarking on a writing career. Her work includes plays for stage and television, as well as non-fiction and children’s literature. A keen traveller, she spends a lot of her time abroad researching her books.”Death by chocolate” is her sixth novel. Her work is translated into German, Swedish and Norwegian.
A MAP TO GET LOST
At finde vild
Reykjavik 1972. In a sports hall Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky play the chess game of the century. Out on the street a red ballon escapes from the hand of a small boy and starts a tale that ties together the lives of several persons. Joyce is pregnant but would rather study dying languages in remote places, searching for freedom. Vladimira works as an interpreter for the Soviet chess delegation. Her meeting with Boris Spassky ruins her life, but gives it a meaning. Edda works as a cleaning woman while looking for a man who can give her a child. Olivier owns a hotel in Bretagne. He travels to Iceland trying to escape a childhood with a mother who knew no boundaries. A map to get lost takes place in Iceland and Paris, the Rocky Mountains and Greenland, from 1972 until the turn of the millennium. It is a story about widely different persons planning for the future and looking for a stroke of luck, who all get bypasssed by real life. A story full of narrative zest, raw humour, warmth and life. The book was published by Modtryk (Denmark), August 2005.
A map to get lost was published in German by Piper Verlag, “Piper Nordiska” in the autumn 2006.
Rights sold to Turkey (Acik Defter Publishing), Germany (Piper Verlag)
