My fic for Astrid Lingren's "Most Beloved Sister" is finally translated and beta read, so I'll post both versions here. I don't think you need to have read the original story to enjoy this one - just know that as a child, Barbara had a secret twin called Lalla-Lee/Ylva-li, who lived in an underground world with its entrance behind the rose bush ( Read more... )

Last week or thereabouts I wrote a quick little Swedish vignette based on the short story/picture book "Most Beloved Sister" by Astrid Lindgren. Now I have translated that vignette into English. But since translating a story is actually a lot harder than writing it in English in the first place, I'd like to have it beta read by an Anglosachsian ( Read more... )

I've made an Astrid Lindgren quiz over at funtrivia.com, so those of you (I suspect mostly Swedes) who think you know a thing or two about her and her books can go over and play it here.

"On the night that Ronia was born a thunderstorm was raging over the mountains, such a storm that all the goblinfolk in Matt's Forest crept back in terror to their holes and hiding places. Only the fierce harpies preferred stormy weather to any other and flew, shrieking and hooting, around the robbers' stronghold on Matt's mountain. Their noise ( Read more... )