[Vwoolf] Woolf in Norway

Mon Jan 20 14:59:17 EST 2025

Hi, Harish - I'm always happy to find new publishers of interesting books!
And it certainly keeps the buyer at my local bookstore busy!

Regards
Anastasia

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM Harish Trivedi <harish.trivedi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Anastasia, for your interest in my publisher or at least in their
> name!  Here's a brief history of the imprint, with shades of the
> "Oriental,"  postcolonial, and globalizing discourses.
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Blackswan__;!!KGKeukY!zT9aOd3UHhbmiPGMMTui-9Spi2eH0OthRaGpwLdlZpzthT--M8sl5uTpKM2xSxhwGZzMPW41cgnr2CFnF9g1Vl3C$ 
>
> Incidentally, they have recently launched  a series of edited volumes
> titled *100 Years of ....   *Before my own volume on *A *Passage* to
> India, *they had brought out *100 Years of *The Waste Land, to which I
> too was a contributor.
>
> Following liberalization in the 1990s, we now have Penguin India,
> HarperCollins, Rouledge, and Hachette etc publishing from India, with
> different degrees of affiliation to the parent international brands.  The
> oldest is OUP India (since 1912?), followed I think by Macmillan  and CUP.
>
> India has for many years been the third largest publisher of books in the
> English language  -- though less than 10% of Indians actually (can) read
> books in English.  The largest-selling newspapers are in Hindi as are the
> most popular TV news channels.
>
> No work of VW seems to have been translated into Hindi, except *A Room of
> One's Own.   *
>
> Harish Trivedi
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 at 06:52, Anastasia H <anastasiasf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Your book looks quite interesting! I also perused some of the other
>> categories and collected the names of several other titles of interest.
>>
>> The buyer at my local bookstore is going to enjoy this request. Thank you
>> for bringing this publisher to my attention!
>>
>> Also, I am partial to any publisher with "Swan" in the name, as my own
>> offshoot project is "Black Swan Press":
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.blackswanpress.net/__;!!KGKeukY!zT9aOd3UHhbmiPGMMTui-9Spi2eH0OthRaGpwLdlZpzthT--M8sl5uTpKM2xSxhwGZzMPW41cgnr2CFnF5h3XOGh$ 
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM Harish Trivedi via Vwoolf <
>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's another Forster, based on a photo taken in India in 1922.
>>> Apologies for the book-/self-/promotion, but I am trying to connect the two
>>> dots that A Passage to India and Mrs Dalloway were published within a year
>>> of each other, by authors
>>> Here's another Forster, based on a photo taken in India in 1922.
>>>
>>> Apologies for the book-/self-/promotion, but I am trying to connect the
>>> two dots that *A Passage to India* and *Mrs Dalloway* were published
>>> within a year of each other, by authors who were close (if critical)
>>> friends.
>>>
>>> *100 Years of *A Passage to India
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orientblackswan.com/details?id=9789354429293__;!!KGKeukY!zT9aOd3UHhbmiPGMMTui-9Spi2eH0OthRaGpwLdlZpzthT--M8sl5uTpKM2xSxhwGZzMPW41cgnr2CFnF0R2tKiZ$ 
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orientblackswan.com/details?id=9789354429293__;!!KGKeukY!wOZ5nOkGGjTZbpsccovqwSRWg-_UocwwGwWf41tYCO1f1digXAF85vHBq0c2Sibn96NpQc3hrARl5BiWp0xOmTgQ-1mq$>
>>>
>>> Best wishes.
>>> Harish
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Harish Trivedi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 03:56, stringsOf Light via Vwoolf <
>>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Totally agree there with you Sarah. E. M. Forster has for example a
>>>> distinguished nose when shown in profile (as seen in the photo attached)
>>>> which is a dominant feature, yet in the drawing it is not quite really
>>>> captured that well. From: Sarah
>>>> Totally agree there with you Sarah.
>>>>  E.M. Forster has for example a distinguished nose when shown in
>>>> profile (as seen in the photo attached) which is a dominant feature, yet in
>>>> the drawing it is not quite really captured that well.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* Sarah M. Hall <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>
>>>> *Sent:* 14 January 2025 13:34
>>>> *To:* Jeremy Hawthorn <jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no>; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <
>>>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>; stringsOf Light <stringsoflight at hotmail.co.uk>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf in Norway
>>>>
>>>> (And 'Orlando' . . .)
>>>>
>>>> The pics are imaginative representations based (at least in some cases)
>>>> on photographs. The intention is illustrative rather than realistic, I
>>>> suppose.
>>>>
>>>> Struggling to find any trace of E. M. Forster in his portrait though!
>>>>
>>>> Sarah
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah M. Hall
>>>> Executive Council
>>>> Virginia Woolf Society of GB
>>>> Web: virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk__;!!KGKeukY!wOZ5nOkGGjTZbpsccovqwSRWg-_UocwwGwWf41tYCO1f1digXAF85vHBq0c2Sibn96NpQc3hrARl5BiWp0xOmaeI_lR4$>
>>>> Facebook: @VWSGB
>>>> Twitter/X: @VirginiaWoolfGB
>>>> Instagram: @virginiawoolfsociety
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, 13 January 2025 at 13:01:35 GMT, stringsOf Light via Vwoolf <
>>>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hope you’ll like this a little more: Virginia surrounded by flowers.
>>>> There is also one of Vita Sackville-West too. http: //www.
>>>> nikoletasekulovic. com/rossetti-collection From: Vwoolf
>>>> <vwoolf-bounces+stringsoflight=hotmail. co. uk@ lists. osu. edu>
>>>> I hope you’ll like this a little more: Virginia surrounded by flowers.
>>>> There is also one of Vita Sackville-West too.
>>>>
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.nikoletasekulovic.com/rossetti-collection__;!!KGKeukY!zT9aOd3UHhbmiPGMMTui-9Spi2eH0OthRaGpwLdlZpzthT--M8sl5uTpKM2xSxhwGZzMPW41cgnr2CFnF1WeZiEb$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.nikoletasekulovic.com/rossetti-collection__;!!KGKeukY!zB-2cyt0Jlbsoy0fhPgTS10HFWFA15SdbbjdzBCrNQZjfn3-bSem34-3Gv69UZd5HyYMT0dXyemXnLxMJLS0lo8MI3Au_F8x$>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+stringsoflight=
>>>> hotmail.co.uk at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf <
>>>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>>>> *Sent:* 11 January 2025 20:57
>>>> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>>>> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Woolf in Norway
>>>>
>>>> The Norwegian newspaper "Klassekampen" (= "Class Struggle") produces a
>>>> book supplement every weekend. This week there are 3 pages on Virginia
>>>> Woolf by Swedish writer Peter Englund, concentrating on Woolf's struggles
>>>> with
>>>> The Norwegian newspaper "Klassekampen" (= "Class Struggle") produces a
>>>> book supplement every weekend. This week there are 3 pages on Virginia
>>>> Woolf by Swedish writer Peter Englund, concentrating on Woolf's struggles
>>>> with "The Years" as detailed in her diary. The link below takes you to the
>>>> front of the supplement, which contains a portrait that to my eye looks
>>>> nothing like Woolf. In addition, the main body of the newspaper contains a
>>>> couple of pages about D. H. Lawrence, so Norwegian lovers of the 20th
>>>> century English novel have plenty to enjoy over the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2025-01-11/bokmagasinet__;!!KGKeukY!zT9aOd3UHhbmiPGMMTui-9Spi2eH0OthRaGpwLdlZpzthT--M8sl5uTpKM2xSxhwGZzMPW41cgnr2CFnF_h5xJE9$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2025-01-11/bokmagasinet__;!!KGKeukY!wbt-53VATPhERugu4k0WETdH8mD-ezqRkX926V32Hdshc5_1S_ul8iM6mRu94fLKJAHMEYr9s3g0cm10GzFnngUukjTqfqY$>
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy H
>>>>
>>>>
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