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		<title>Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog has been put on the back burner until I have handed my thesis on fanfic in. Be back in the middle of April. Love J. (read it how you like it)]]></description>
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		<title>A circular motion towards memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[New book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bjørn Rasmussen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele legemet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A mind and a memory Did I already read this passage? He used that same sentence before didn&#8217;t he? What? Is there a code in this text? I&#8217;ve been reading Bjørn Rasmussen&#8217;s &#8216;Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele kroppen&#8217; (&#8216;The skin is the elastic holster that enshrouds the entire body&#8217; &#8211; although in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metro Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[conceptual literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[orskælv!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urbanity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you forgot your book, your mp3-player, your smartphone, your laptop, your magazine, in conclusion yourself, on the Copenhagen Metro there is always an alternative solution to staring at the punch-date on your ticket coupon &#8217;til you go blind. As proponents of happy, smiley customers (adding a bit of branding techniques inspired by the bastard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My December read</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2012/my-december-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alen Meskovic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bjørn Rasmussen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Scherfig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jóanes Nielsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tarek Omar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So up to this last month of 2011 I managed to read quite a lot of books &#8211; more than usual I would say. To be quite frank, I upped up my reading because I noticed that my &#8220;Goodreads reading challenge 2011&#8243; in the latter half of this year was not progressing so well, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The logic of the field</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/the-logic-of-the-field/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bogmarkedet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John B. Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbeth Worsøe-Schmidt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seminar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a seminar called &#8220;Bogbranchens udfordringer&#8221; (Challenges in the publishing industry) in October. The seminar was arranged by BogMarkedet and held at Gyldendal. As well as representatives of book sellers and publishers, BogMarkedet had invited scholars John B. Thompson and Lisbeth Worsøe-Schmidt to speak at the seminar. The title of this post refers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The act of reading</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/the-act-of-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reader-response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love the whole and vast literary field and spend a great deal of time reading &#8211; and NO, it is not the same as saying I love to read from every particle of the field and YES, I do think that some of it is real BS and could be chucked in the bin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bakkehusalfabetet</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/bakkehusalfabetet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bakkehusmuseet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morten Søndergaard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week me and my mother (in town after attending Frankfurter Buchmesse, I&#8217;m so jealous) went to the exhibition at Bakkehusmuseet on reading by poet Morten Søndergaard called &#8220;Bakkehusalfabetet&#8221;. The exhibit is set in and around the permanent exhibition in the house of Kamma and Knud Lyne Rahbek &#8211; two leading figures in 18th century society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New E-deal</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/the-new-e-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-loan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lindhardt & Ringhof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosiante]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the 1st of November 2011 and for one year initially a new e-book deal will make it possible for readers and lenders to borrow e-books from the Danish libraries, effectively eclipsing the previous one. The project is funded by the Office of Library and Media and partnering with them are among others the six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prize in Literature 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/nobel-prize-in-literature-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/nobel-prize-in-literature-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adonis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dylan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Update: Tomas Tranströmer, nobel laureate. The man with his very own literary prize, Tranströmerpriset (established in 1997, with a money prize of 100,000 SEK), has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2011. Tomas Tranströmer has been a popular guess for the Nobel Prize for quite a lot of years along with Syrian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing upon a portmonee</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/wishing-upon-a-portmonee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/wishing-upon-a-portmonee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[wish list]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so you have to know this. It&#8217;s valuable information for future reference and you might just get that next dream job if you read the following text: If this was a book wish list, I would wish for these: VE3 Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta : yet another fabulous book made by Visual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana Literature 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/louisiana-literature-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carsten Jensen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helle Helle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ilija Trojanov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juli Zeh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirsten Hammann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kjell Askildsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lars Saabye Christensen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana Literature 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Literary festivals, what are they good for? Once you&#8217;ve seen one, you&#8217;ve seen &#8216;em all, you might say. Sure, a lot of the questions revolve around the same things; &#8216;how do you write a novel?&#8217;, &#8216;how should readers read you novel?&#8217;, &#8216;what is literature to you?&#8217; &#8211; questions, whose answers I pretty much know by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana Literature 2011 Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/louisiana-literature-2011-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos from 3 of 4 days of Louisiana Literature 2011 are here. Full report will come shortly.]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana Literature and VMO</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/louisiana-literature-and-vmo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nordic Council Literature Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danish literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature festivals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn has kicked in and what better way to celebrate it literati style than to go to a couple of literary festivals. A couple of weeks ago I was cordially invited by one of the organisers of Vild Med Ord to the literature festival in Aarhus for the mere fact that I am a literature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danish immigrant literature</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/danish-immigrant-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danish immigration literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been schooled! I might have claimed in my last post that Danish immigrant literature is practically non-existent, but this is not true. I will however still assert my claim that immigrant literature in this country is not much profiled due to some apparent reasons: interest is not that high, those who are profiled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/in-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[German literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Eggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Safran Foer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafik Schami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uwe Tellkamp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve posted anything, but I have had so much to do lately that I barely have had time to do my work, let alone anything extra curricular. But as the title would insinuate; I am in Berlin!!! This is the third week of my German Intensive course (out of four) and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second-hand bookshopping</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/second-hand-bookshopping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bookshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carsten Jensen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hubby and I went shopping the day before yesterday and my feet are still aching after the trip. But now the bookcase is five books and one periodical richer. I don&#8217;t know how it is that I am not surgically fixed to the many good second-hand bookstores in Copenhagen, but I must count my lucky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I had an iPad and a kid</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/if-i-had-an-ipad-and-a-kid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice in Wonderland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interactive literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morris Lessmore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to literature in digital media there is a lot going on &#8211; and especially for kids the playing field is fascinating. But that should come as no surprise since kids really are like sponges and much of the technology seems to be very intuitively adapted for point and play mode. YouTube has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Flat Bunny</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/the-flat-bunny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/the-flat-bunny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bárður Oskarsson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faroe Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flata kaninin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frankfurter Buchmesse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[picture book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bárður Oskarsson, Faroese children&#8217;s book author and illustrator, has just published his fourth picture book in Faroese titled &#8220;Flata kaninin&#8221; (The Flat Bunny). It will be published in Danish later this year, but I do not know the specific date. The Flat Bunny is, to put it bluntly, hilarious and does its genre honour. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Herta</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/reading-herta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[German literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ceaușescu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herta Müller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning with an ouch and some altogether unrelated non-literary news (which, however, will excuse to some extent my complete awol from the blogosphere): My hand is f*%&#38; up from doing work at my father&#8217;s farm weeding in his potatoe fields &#8211; maaaan it hurts. My wrist crackles and fizzles! Fascinating on one side, and completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothingness</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/nothingness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Intet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janne Teller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young-adult fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever feel like getting out of your chair, walking out the door, climbing the next tree you see and shout existential, nihilistic quotes at people who have not seen the light &#8211; or rather, who have yet to realise that action is pointless, that living is futile? Are you still in your chair? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the little bookshop</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/at-the-little-bookshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I attended at reading by Manu Sareen at Harders bookshop. Sareen is the author of the series on Iqbal Farooq, and has recently published two books in a new series that are loosely based on Danish author H.C. Andersen's fairy tales. He talked about the state of ethnic minorities, politics and cultural characteristics as well as give readings from his books and explain his writing process and where he gets his characters from.]]></description>
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		<title>Give us free</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/give-us-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 14:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[anticipations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know that feeling you get when you come out from a movie eeeeeverybody has been talking about and running out of superlatives to praise? And anticipations have been building up, excitement is in the air &#8211; what have the makers of this film done that will blow my socks off? The feeling that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grimsrudian writings</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/grimsrudian-writings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 12:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Forfatterscene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nordic Council Literature Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beate Grimsrud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[En dåre fri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Autor's Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I went to yesterday&#8217;s International Author&#8217;s Stage to experience Beate Grimsrud, the Norwegian, now Swedish-based, author of works like &#8220;En dåre fri&#8221; (roughly translated to &#8216;A fool free&#8217;) and &#8220;At smyge forbi en økse&#8221; (again roughly &#8216;To edge past an axe&#8217;). As far as the Scandinavian literary scene is concerned Grimsrud has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Talks</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/tedtalks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 10:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Kay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spoken word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TED]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a very soft spot for spoken word poetry. And so I won&#8217;t write much in this post other than I recommend that you listen to and see this Ted Talk featuring Sarah Kay. Her poetry balances with extraordinary curiousness on the borderline between confidence and vulnerability that is fascinating to me. I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proudly presents:</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/proudly-presents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 16:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday to Sunday you absolutely must come (if you are not restricted geographically or otherwise) to THE literary conference at KUA. The topic is &#8220;Literature in the Expanded Field&#8221; and there is lots to talk about. Look, read, and come! (oh and by the way: I am one of the contributors to the student panels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literature and new media</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/literature-and-new-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[electronic literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature and media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marjorie Perloff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Joyce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Just finished watching &#8216;Ordkraft&#8217; on DR K about the linkage of literature and new media. It was very interesting and especially relevant for me because this is exactly what I am studying this semester. This whole area is so fascinating and there is so much going on right now that challenges the boundaries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, not the panty collector!</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/no-not-the-panty-collector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Fielding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The History of Tom Jones a Foundling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Jones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2009 I completed my BA in comparative literature with an in-depth paper on Henry Fielding&#8217;s &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221;. Needless to say, I have had to mention Fielding&#8217;s name just about every time I introduce said Jones, as one other individual has had a seemingly greater impact on modern culture consumption than the character of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The birds</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/the-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norwegian author]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the individual]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I went on a walk in my neighborhood at the time people put out their bulk waste. I am continuously amazed at what things people throw away. In my own saving-student-budget way I am glad, since I now have pots and pans and books and furniture, etc., all in perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spew your lunch, your history and your language on me</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/stalinscows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sofi Oksanen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sofi Oksanen, I wish I could read Finnish so I could read your debut novel in its originality. Not that the translation was bad at all. It&#8217;s just&#8230; I feel there is something embedded in the language itself, that cannot be translated and understood at all. Like I have read a story that has so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic, conceptual, visual, concrete, structural literature, literature, literature</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/expandedfieldofliterature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/expandedfieldofliterature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[E-readers and e-books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conceptual literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronic literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Safran Foer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week another semester started at uni, and this time I will be delving into the vast field of literature as more than just the piece of text inside a book. On Thursday we were introduced to the semester plan and the curriculum with bonus literature. The course is really fascinating. When I first read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the people</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/allthepeople/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buzz Aldrin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faroe Islands]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[individuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johan Harstad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read in an article recently that it took us several hundred thousand years to go from 0 to 1 billion people, and only 12 years from 6 to 7 billion which is expected to be the count for the world population in 2011. So many people, everywhere, and a number that is growing so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender seminar – days 5 &amp; 6</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/genderseminardays5and6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[josefine klougart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rasmus Graff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the internet finally caved in, and I was left out of the digital grid the rest of the seminar, so this is a belated account of days 5 and 6. 5 The rest of the nominees for the Montana literary prize were introduced at the morning assembly. They were Pia Juul&#8217;s &#8216;Radioteatret&#8217;, Anders Haar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender seminar – day 4</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/genderseminarday4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Wilke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After going to bed at half past 2 yesterday (on the 11th as this is written on the 12th) it was a pretty shattering experience hearing 14 sets of mobile alarms from 7 am to 8.30. I dragged my tush over to the breakfast feast that was awaiting in the canteen and drank about 14 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender seminar – day 3</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/genderseminarday3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Introduction: some of this is written on day 4, because my laptop died on me before I had a time to finish it, and so it will not, as later stated, be a short post.) Yet another day packed with activities. Today, three of the nominees for the Montana literary prize were introduced to us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender seminar – day 2</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/genderseminarday2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am: day two and experiences richer. The day started with breakfast and morning song &#8211; just how højskole is supposed to start, and I think I will introduce this into the morning ritual at home, it&#8217;s so refreshing On today&#8217;s schedule were two lectures and one movie interspersed with meals and coffee breaks every hour (I am almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender seminar – Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2011/gender-seminar-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9.30 a.m: Frantic re-packing, hauling sweaters and hairdryer out of one bag into decidedly larger bag. Have to be on train at 11. No sweat, I even managed to eat breakfast, pack a lunch, and throw in an extra pair of shoes and two packets of gum. I am multi-task genius. 11 a.m.: Train platform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google eBooks</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/googleebooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/googleebooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[America versus Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes, yes. The Americans have it all, nevermind us bottom feeders once known as the Glorioussus Conquistador&#8217; Speciexus Europedales Grandes (just made that up, but for you history buffs out there I will have you know that once, a long-long-looong time ago, Europe was actually not that bad at inventing and thinking &#8211; now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come prima delle madre</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/come-prima-delle-madre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/come-prima-delle-madre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abandonment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother-son relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oedipal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But don&#8217;t be fooled, I read it in Danish &#8211; although I am seriously in the mood to learn some Italian as it sounds so passionate, I make no pretense of knowing the Italian language past &#8216;ciao bella&#8217;- but a good language to scold someone in. The novel takes place in Italy and reeks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrample splickets</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/scramblesplickets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/scramblesplickets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book packet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[booklist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[translation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since this post will be an array of topics I couldn&#8217;t decide on what to call it. So I made it up. My prize book packet has arrived. I was not to be kept in suspense for long, even though it stated that it could take up to 4 weeks after the draft to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BogForum 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/bogforum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/bogforum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-readers and e-books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bogforum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am now on day 3 A.B. (After Book fair), and up until today I haven&#8217;t had the strength to do anything other than bike home from work, eat and go straight to bed. Yeah, yeah, I know; &#8216;Stop your whining!&#8217; And I will&#8230; after this post. Le reason: I have been totally consumed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win, win, win</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/winwinwin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/winwinwin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mega litt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yey me!!! I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again: if you wanna win the lottery, buy a ticket!! (ok, confession, that&#8217;s not true, I don&#8217;t say that, but Julia Roberts says it in &#8216;Eat, Prey, Love&#8217;, so soon everybody is gonna say it, so I might as well start the first wave in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEGA litt 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/megalitt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/megalitt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grant money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mega litt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[readings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The event I was blogging about the last time has now come and gone, and yes, Per Stig Møller was quoted for saying that somehow the ministry had &#8216;found&#8217; (I am not shitting you, this is the wording I read on Politiken.dk) the money before, and now all of a sudden they had yet again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants for literature</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/grantsforliterature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/grantsforliterature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In the past couple of weeks, there has been an uproar within the ranks of and about the creators, exponents and critics of literature in Denmark. The reason? Why, money of course. Well, no I am sorry, I didn&#8217;t mean that. In all actuality it is about money, but since the government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ding Ling: writer, woman, revolutionary</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/dingling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/dingling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ding Ling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May Fourth Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern chinese literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Behind those sorrowful and attentive eyes lies a story fit for the history books. Let me introduce you to Ding Ling (1904-1986); Chinese writer, woman and revolutionary. She is the author of one of my favorite short stories, &#8216;Mrs. Sophia&#8217;s Diary&#8217;, written in a Westernized, cosmopolitan Beijing and published in 1927. Unfortunately, I believe, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/mybookshelf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/mybookshelf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-readers and e-books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[app]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bookcase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cataloguing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just spent the last six hours (I am not exaggerating) cataloguing my bookshelf. Why? Because I was browsing around on my phone and I found an isbn scanner that promised a true literate&#8217;s wet dream: the chance of a quick scan-add and voila, bookshelf details are digitalized. Only it was not really that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prize in Literature 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/nobel-prize-in-literature-2010-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/nobel-prize-in-literature-2010-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nobel prize]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update: The announcement has been made. Mario Vargas Llosa is this years winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. For further information see here.]]></description>
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		<title>Crusoe as we know him and love him</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/crusoe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/crusoe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Defoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robinson Crusoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[translation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe has been on my bookshelf for as long as I have been able to read. When I was a kid I got a children&#8217;s version in Faroese from my book club which I faithfully read, and as an adult I bought a copy in the original language, also faithfully reading. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literary hit or bust</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/literaryhitorbust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/literaryhitorbust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compulsive behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[library]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you defy your inner voice it can be incredibly rewarding. And sometimes its just the opposite&#8230;. and sometimes it&#8217;s a mix of both! Example A: Me. I go to the library on a regular basis. Sometimes its a quickie, when I return books or pick them up, making sure not to look over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tunu &#8211; Eastern Greenland turns its back on you!</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/greenland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/greenland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Leine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just spent a couple of days in the company of Kim Leine&#8217;s Greenlanders as seen and narrated through his book Tunu. Let me just say from the get-go; I did not like it. In short, Tunu is about the inhabitants of a village in Eastern Greenland (Tunu is Eastern Greenland, and means back). At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darling River by Stridsberg</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/darlingriver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/darlingriver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nabokov]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just spent the day with Stridsberg&#8217;s newest addition to Swedish contemporary literature, Darling River. Make no mistake, this is no fuddy duddy, school girl crush, chic-lit reading, as the Danish cover might have you believe (and this is not a critique of the cover at all, I love it for the very reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucie by Amalie Skram</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/lucie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/lucie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amalie Skram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woe is me, the pain and degradation in 19th century women&#8217;s literature! The anger, frustration and solitude!! I just spent the last couple of days reading a book by Amalie Skram called &#8216;Lucie&#8217;. Recalling some of the passages still sends shivers down my spine. It is a story of society, marriage and the bonds that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bastard of Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/bastardofistanbul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/bastardofistanbul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elif Şafak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Bastard of Istanbul]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These last couple of days I have had an adventurous craving for food I don&#8217;t know how to pronounce, and basically don&#8217;t know what is. It is due to my latest gobble of world literature that this passion has taken a hold of me so strong I am inclined to postpone this semesters&#8217; uni start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sara Stridsberg</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/sarastridsberg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/sarastridsberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nordic Council Literature Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darling River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drömfakulteten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sara Stridsberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Solanas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had some good news today. Sara Stridsberg is out with a new book called &#8216;Darling River&#8217;, published in Sweden in early 2010 and just translated to Danish pending appearance on August 20th. I, however, (sorry Danish publishers and bookstores) will shoot my future career in the foot and buy it in Swedish and on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Processing 9/11 &#8211; a Foer experience</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/911/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/911/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember what I did at 10 o&#8217;clock in the morning. But I remember the afternoon. That&#8217;s when my little TV in my little dorm room was turned on because I had received a very odd text from a friend, and it wasn&#8217;t even April 1st. It felt like April 1st, a very cruel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euripides&#8217; Medea</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/medea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/medea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My holiday books are in a dead heat with books I have discovered in my mom&#8217;s bookshelves. I could have told myself that books were not a necessary item to bring with me on a trip home, but I got greedy. The latest raid left me with seven books in each hand and three in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia: Alex Haley&#8217;s Roots</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/roots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/roots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afro-American]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roots]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid I used to raid my mother&#8217;s book shelves after I had emptied the village library, and my own book club books were turned over about 4 times. Most of the stuff I read I couldn&#8217;t really fully understand in all their complexities, but there are a couple of books from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books and McDonald&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/freelunch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/freelunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you familiar with the phrase: &#8220;There is no such thing as a free lunch&#8221;? It is the notion that something always comes at a cost, whether it is hidden or apparent, the individual or society at large always pays the bill. This phrase came to me as I was reading how Detroit Public Library [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adichie&#8217;s women</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/adichie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/adichie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adichie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the thing around your neck]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You had just finished Adichie&#8217;s latest book and sat down to write a post to your blog about it. You had realized that it was drawing your mind towards yourself and the people and places around you. It was the summer you did not go to Roskilde Festival, the summer you finished early at uni [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theme: Africa &amp; Literature</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/theme-africa-literature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/theme-africa-literature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book fair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was complaining about my lack of knowledge in African literature the other day, and hey presto, this pops up: http://www.bok-bibliotek.se/bokmassan/teman/ . It is the Swedish Bokmässa (book fair) on September 23-26, and I am contemplating a visit. I have only been to one book fair, which was last year in Forum, Copenhagen. And although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Price – brothers√ brand√ book√</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/pricebrothers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/pricebrothers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kühlmann]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I finished the biography &#8216;Brødrene Price &#8211; maden, musikken, livet og kærligheden&#8217; (The Price Brothers &#8211; the food, the music, the life and the love). It was a quick read and I must, first off, clarify that already at the beginning I had my reservations about this book when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New site</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/new-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/new-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new site]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penciltwister.com/?p=494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello puppets, it&#8217;s me! I have switched myself and my blog over to my very own .com site &#8211; so overly happy and scared of the endless possibilities I can delve into now. So this is just a little post to let everyone know that from now on, my blog will be operating from http://www.penciltwister.com, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mailbox entry</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/mailbox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/mailbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adichie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blixen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have talked so much about my mailbox these last entries that I think I should name one category &#8217;mailbox&#8217;. Today was no exception: I opened my mailbox and two books came tumbling out, much to my delight. The Blixen book I received for the tweet I talked about in my earlier post. It is so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bubbly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago I turned 28. The magic of birthdays has gone a long time ago, but it is still a good excuse for feeling extra special, like you deserve some credit for making it this far. The day started well of with morning-coffee and buns, lots of congratulations on different channels and when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling stories</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/tellingstories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/tellingstories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Blixen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven Gothic Tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have started to read Karen Blixen&#8217;s Seven Gothic Tales and I am really liking it. The first story &#8216;Roads around Pisa&#8217; reminded me a lot of Don Quixote and how Cervantes playfully deals with sexuality and misconceptions that invite a reconsideration/reaffirmation of the cultural meaning of gender. There is an awful lot of reflection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summertime</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/summertime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/summertime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-readers and e-books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[exams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of yesterday I have completed my first year of MA in Comparative Literature! And luckily the semester ended on a high, so I am mighty pleased I woke up at 5.20 am yesterday, and could have ripped my pillow to pieces because I wasn&#8217;t scheduled to give my presentation until 1.30 pm!! So I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers and booze</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/writersandbooze/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/writersandbooze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it, that in order to be a writer of any standard above boring, you have to have a serious relationship with some vice that is only cool by reason of your literary skills? Or your characters must? Hunter Thompson, for instance, advocated the absolute surrender to alcoholic beverages and drugs in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The E-reader II</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/ereaderii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/ereaderii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t keep my fingers out of the cookie jar, or rather the e-reader bag, after the post yesterday. I figured I had earned myself a treat since I, unwillingly and with no quarter, found myself locked inside my apartment for over a week writing papers and reading all there is to know about modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The e-reader</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/ereader/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/ereader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-readers and e-books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[summer vacation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A whopping 17 days since my last entry just shows how hard I have worked on my exams And with this steaming weather it is an accomplishment in itself to lock oneself up inside. But since I now only have to edit my 20+ pages paper on &#8216;Women and Sexuality in literature in China &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is illuminated by Foer</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/illuminated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/illuminated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Safran Foer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic realism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I started to read &#8216;Everything is illuminated&#8217; on the train on my way to uni last semester. I just realized that I haven&#8217;t read a lot of contemporary American literature, and this (in my humble opinion) is not a bad introduction. I had not heard about Foer before, and actually bought it because I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly acquired books</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/newlyacquiredbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/newlyacquiredbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 11:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[German literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gothenburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herta Müller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Gothenburg from Wednesday to Friday to visit my sister and her boyfriend with my mother. It was great fun, although I missed my weekly food club (major bummer)!! On Friday we went to a district called Haga and there were so many charming little streets, with so many adorable little shops and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication bonanza</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/communicationbonanza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/communicationbonanza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 11:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://penciltwister.wordpress.com/?p=299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just looked at the books on my table and went &#8216;huh&#8217;. I looked real hard, squinted my eyes, looked away and still the same sight appeared before me. My beautiful literary heaven has been taken hostile by communication books, branding, storytelling, market talk and such. Why you say? Well, I am doing a course on communication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eine Frau in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/einefrauinberlin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/einefrauinberlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 16:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received a new book in the mail today. I have said it before, I will say it again; the mail rules!! (except when it consists of bills and fast food ads). It&#8217;s like getting gifts every now and then, especially since I have the memory of a gold-fish, I always forget I&#8217;ve ordered something, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever happened to good old fashioned tennis rackets?</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/whateverhappenedtogoodoldfashionedtennisrackets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/whateverhappenedtogoodoldfashionedtennisrackets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 12:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I got the urge to learn to play tennis. There are some tennis courts close to my home so this means all I need is a tennis racket. So what do I do? I go online and on to a search-and-compare site to find tennis rackets. I type in tennis racket, click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herbjørg Wassmo II</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/herbj%c3%b8rgwassmoii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/herbj%c3%b8rgwassmoii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 08:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[individuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herbjørg Wassmo is an interesting lady. She says stuff like: &#8216;God bless birth control, study loans and the washing machine.&#8217; And she laughs with a charming tickle in her voice, the kind that makes you laugh whether you want it or not. But the most interesting thing about her is her presence. She is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herbjørg Wassmo</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/herbj%c3%b8rgwassmo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/herbj%c3%b8rgwassmo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[winning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I am going to The Royal Library&#8217;s International Autor&#8217;s Stage, where Herbjørg Wassmo, the author of &#8216;Huset med den blinde glassveranda&#8217; (The house with the blind glass veranda), will be talking about her newest book and her literary career. I bought tickets this morning only to get a beautiful call from the event makers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Thief</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/thebookthief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burning books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junot Díaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markus Zusak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Book Thief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bedtime reading for this month has been The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. The narrator is Death himself, seeing color where death occurs and taking a liking to a little girl named Liesel, who lives with foster parents at Himmel (did anyone say loaded?) Street. Through Death we learn about Liesel&#8217;s life. Her constant nightmares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exams: oh how I am going to miss you, the stress and the crammed-into-the-last-few-days-creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/exams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[examination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern chinese literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deadlines are coming up real fast, and I am getting nostalgic about something that doesn&#8217;t have the proper distance in time to deserve being called a nostalgia, since I am right in the process, or actually not even started. Yes it is the exam, the nerve-wrecking, yet exhilarating time of the year when all you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Everybody was beating each other up. The whole neighborhood was a war zone.”</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/everybodywasbeatingeachotherup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erlend Loe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[just published]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morten Ramsland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramsland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rough childhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sumobrothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sumobrødre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sumobrothers, p.15 (Danish version here) In my opinion, Ramsland&#8217;s &#8216;Sumobrothers&#8217; can be divided into two. Section 1: a little more than half of the book. Totally submerged in physical and emotional violence, sadism, sexual assaults, brutal parents, lacking parents, frustrated parents, frustrated children, and last but not least a whole pile of brutal children without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the winner is…</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/andthewinneris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood on the dance floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DR2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hundehoved]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morten Ramsland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sumobrødre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It pays to be totally maniacal when it comes to checking websites that give &#8216;free&#8217; stuff away. Last week I was quick enough to be one of the five fastest to volunteer at DR&#8217;s Testklubben to review &#8216;Sumobrødre&#8216; by Morten Ramsland. The prize? One copy of the book, free of charge. Score! I am starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inherited shame</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/inheritedshame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[father and daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shame]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julia Butschkow has enrolled in the field of post-WWII literature with &#8216;Apropos Opa&#8217;, a story about a depressed woman working in a watchmaker shop, because studying literature at the university was too much. Her father has &#8216;fled&#8217; to Denmark from Germany and all that it stands for, denouncing it&#8217;s, and more importantly his father&#8217;s existence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebration!</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[18]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[20's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[30's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassination of Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rememberance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my cousin&#8217;s 30th birthday. 30 years on this globe that&#8217;s ever spinning around the sun at a mind-blowing pace. It is interesting that we put so much emphasis on defining some days and events as more important than other. 29 is totally boring, why bother mentioning it, unless it is to mark your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/hunger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/hunger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[19th century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christiania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knut Hamsun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristiania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sult]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I finished Knut Hamsun&#8217;s Sult (Hunger). It has one of those epic starting lines that are so rare these days, probably because they either reek of cliché&#8217;s or have already been taken. &#8220;It was during the time I wandered about and starved in Christiania: Christiania, this singular city, from which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sofi Oksanen</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/sofioksanen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nordic Council Literature Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in and on literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puhdistus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renselse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sofi Oksanen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On March 30th the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 was awarded to Sofi Oksanen for her novel Puhdistus. I had planned for a long time to read it, as I read an interview with her and several reviews that spoke highly of the novel. Usually I don&#8217;t select my readings by reviews, but everything I read, both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This just in!</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/thisjustin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice in Wonderland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Et stille umærkeligt drab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Depp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaaberbøl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Book Thief]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re here, they&#8217;re here! On Saturday, April 3rd, they finally arrived. I had hoped they got here before Easter, so I could curl up in bed and read them from cover to cover, but who am I kidding?! There are so many and I have just started on the last batch I bought 3 weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying books</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/buyingbooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postal service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It can be very stressing on my bank account when I browse through an internet bookstore. Just two days ago I ordered for about 100 € worth of cheap books. And any day now they will be filing through my physical mailbox, giving the mailman a run for his money. We are almost on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day at the library</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2010/adayatthelibrary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[library]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I did it. I finally hauled my backside off the nice armchair, away from my cozy little den I call home, defied all common sense and biked 10 km down to my university library. I love the library and I don&#8217;t mean the casual &#8220;uh, I love taco&#8217;s&#8221;-statement or &#8220;I loved the game yesterday&#8221;, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growing up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is dedicated to the wonderful world of literature. Ever since I was a little girl books have been my go-to&#8217;s, my escape, my friends, basically a retreat from the world. It wasn&#8217;t a compensation but a passion that filled my days. Cooped up in my little pubescent ivory tower, I could think of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I call her Red</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2009/23/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK so my day didn&#8217;t go exactly as I planned it. What does that even mean? It went how it went&#8230;. So my camera died on me halfway through, which only proves that the world is filled with red things. I really wanted to take a picture of the red gleam on the inside of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birth and my mission</title>
		<link>http://www.penciltwister.com/2009/birth-og-min-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penciltwister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going undercover overcover. I am telling no one I know, sending my little pearls all over the internet, feeling sneaky about it. My mission for tomorrow: One picture for every RED ITEM I see. This is my camera. There are many like it, but this one is MINE. My camera is my best [...]]]></description>
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