PrintMeet the author of David's Story
Monday 1 March, 6-8 pm
Topolski Century
150-152 Hungerford Arches
South Bank, London SE1 8XU
Free
Stig Dalager (b. 1952) is one of the most productive writers of his generation in Scandinavia and co-editor of the Nordic edition of the Jewish Magazine "Outlook". With 47 published works of fiction, including novels, poetry and short story collections as well as plays, television and film scripts and a libretto, Dalager is one of the most prolific and esteemed writers in Denmark.
Dalager’s holocaust novel David's Story (published in Denmark in 1995, to be published in English in February this year) - about a Polish-Jewish boy’s fate in a Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and based on documentary studies in Vienna - received much acclaim in the Danish press, including "Politiken" who wrote:
"Dalager has written a shocking present historical novel, a taut story of international standing and appeal. A monument of our own shame, at that time and now".
Danish Jewish Magazine "Jewish Information" in its judgement of the book compared its literary quality to the novels of Isaac B. Singer:
"How was it possible for Stig Dalager to write about the last years of the story of David in such a shocking and convincing way that one should think that this was written by Isaac B. Singer or one of the other Polish-Jewish geniuses?"
Stig Dalager talks to Cheryl Robson about his work, research and the story of David.
Organised by Topolski Century, Aurora Metro Press and the Polish Cultural Institute in London
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On Monday 1 March, 10am-12pm Stig Dalager will be a guest of the Jewish Book Week