This Week in Literary History: Nov 3 to Nov 10
Nov. 3: William Makepeace Thakeray completes his opus Barry Lyndon on this day in 1844.
In the footsteps of the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Varmland, SWEDEN – One of Sweden’s greatest writers, Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in this historic province.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – The tattoo parlour in the Stockholm neighbourhood where The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo lives is abuzz with the sounds of sharp instruments puncturing flesh.