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They gave the Nobel to Murnane's shitty translator instead of Murnane. The bias is palpable.

>And now you’re translating Gerald Murnane’s “The Plains.”

>I don’t know how I ended up reading Murnane. He has not been translated into Norwegian before. I read about him somewhere, and he felt like an interesting writer, and “The Plains” is his most translated and famous novel. And it’s published in Swedish and Danish. When it comes to literature, I can read German and English O.K., but I prefer to read in a Scandinavian language. So, I read it in Swedish and I really liked it. And then I decided that I wanted to try to translate it myself.

>How do you translate “The Plains” into Nynorsk?

>“Slettene.” It’s quite accurate. In German, it’s “Die Ebenen.” Where I live in Austria, you have this huge, flat landscape called the Pannonian Plain. It’s a bit like the Australian landscape.

>I feel that Murnane has a quite unique voice and way of seeing. I’ve never read anything like “The Plains,” but it resembles my writing—this sense of distance and closeness. We are writing in different ways, but I can tell that there’s a similar way of seeing that’s behind it.

The last Great author still alive. It's darkness after.

Read Murnane.

The Greatest living writer is Australian

Greatest novel of all time

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>nearly 3000 pages of text utterly mogged by this 100 page novel by a school teacher.
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Unironically the Greatest Novel of all time. In 100 pages he concludes all art, artistic tendencies, entirety of western philosophy and narratology.