Gregory Conway
@lonningspils.bsky.social
chess, coffee & tiny toque in canada. i have a website covering nordic literature.
https://lonningspils.ca/
https://lonningspils.ca/
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Forthcoming from New Directions in October: my translation of LONDON by Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Probably the most difficult book of all the 50+ books I've translated, for many reasons...
February 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Forthcoming from New Directions in October: my translation of LONDON by Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Probably the most difficult book of all the 50+ books I've translated, for many reasons...
french lit pickups from a used bookstore visit
January 29, 2026 at 7:44 PM
french lit pickups from a used bookstore visit
Poesia forever. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Poesia forever. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
finally making a dent in the new tove ditlevsen
January 24, 2026 at 8:22 PM
finally making a dent in the new tove ditlevsen
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I dreamt in Norwegian
January 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I dreamt in Norwegian
Auden... in Iceland?
January 22, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Auden... in Iceland?
this piece by anne meredith barry feels exactly halfway between nikolai astrup & tove jansson, so ya i do love it so so much
January 21, 2026 at 6:33 AM
this piece by anne meredith barry feels exactly halfway between nikolai astrup & tove jansson, so ya i do love it so so much
I love reading Tomas Tranströmer poems.
January 21, 2026 at 6:22 AM
I love reading Tomas Tranströmer poems.
I wrote about one of the best novels I encoutered last year. One Thousand & One by Kari Hukkila. (Trans. David Hackston).
An essayistic novel with truly unique form. It is part wittgenstein biography, part history of natural disasters & part tempestuous love story.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/03/o...
An essayistic novel with truly unique form. It is part wittgenstein biography, part history of natural disasters & part tempestuous love story.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/03/o...
One Thousand & One, Kari Hukkila. 2016.
Review by Gregory ConwayOne Thousand & One by Kari Hukkila,Trans. by David Hackston.Contra Mundum Press95/100**** **** A lot of my winter driving this holiday season has been soundtracked by th…
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January 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I wrote about one of the best novels I encoutered last year. One Thousand & One by Kari Hukkila. (Trans. David Hackston).
An essayistic novel with truly unique form. It is part wittgenstein biography, part history of natural disasters & part tempestuous love story.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/03/o...
An essayistic novel with truly unique form. It is part wittgenstein biography, part history of natural disasters & part tempestuous love story.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/03/o...
In a big step for the website, we sent Penelope Dieppa to the New York launch of The School Of Night, where Karl Ove Knausgaard was in conversation with Patricia Lockwood.
An insightful #KnausgaardUpdate.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/15/o...
An insightful #KnausgaardUpdate.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/15/o...
On Attending Karl Ove Knausgård’s “The School Of Night” Book Launch.
By Penelope Dieppa. I overheard a woman behind me describing a Russian film, set entirely in the Hermitage, taking the viewer through centuries of Russian history, done in one shot. She bookended h…
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January 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM
In a big step for the website, we sent Penelope Dieppa to the New York launch of The School Of Night, where Karl Ove Knausgaard was in conversation with Patricia Lockwood.
An insightful #KnausgaardUpdate.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/15/o...
An insightful #KnausgaardUpdate.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/15/o...
New on Lønningspils today.
I interviewed @mayaweeks.bsky.social about translating the author's note for Tove Jansson's "Sun City", studying plastic pollution in Sweden from a feminist environmental justice perspective, making ambient records & so much more.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/09/i...
I interviewed @mayaweeks.bsky.social about translating the author's note for Tove Jansson's "Sun City", studying plastic pollution in Sweden from a feminist environmental justice perspective, making ambient records & so much more.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/09/i...
January 19, 2026 at 7:17 PM
New on Lønningspils today.
I interviewed @mayaweeks.bsky.social about translating the author's note for Tove Jansson's "Sun City", studying plastic pollution in Sweden from a feminist environmental justice perspective, making ambient records & so much more.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/09/i...
I interviewed @mayaweeks.bsky.social about translating the author's note for Tove Jansson's "Sun City", studying plastic pollution in Sweden from a feminist environmental justice perspective, making ambient records & so much more.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/09/i...
fish by nevan hinks
January 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM
fish by nevan hinks
I just finished Solvej Balle's 1993 book "Ifølge loven // According To The Law", truly blown away. It really mogs OTCOF and hope to see more of their work in translation in the near future.
January 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
I just finished Solvej Balle's 1993 book "Ifølge loven // According To The Law", truly blown away. It really mogs OTCOF and hope to see more of their work in translation in the near future.
three paintings by mamma andersson
January 11, 2026 at 6:23 PM
three paintings by mamma andersson
Double Bubble, Double Tove Jansson over the past few days.
My first encounter with their work. Big preference for Sun City.
My first encounter with their work. Big preference for Sun City.
January 7, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Double Bubble, Double Tove Jansson over the past few days.
My first encounter with their work. Big preference for Sun City.
My first encounter with their work. Big preference for Sun City.
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Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality from the US South to Iceland with Dr. Sciuto (#28, English and Icelandic) icelandchicago.org/2024/12/27/i...
January 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality from the US South to Iceland with Dr. Sciuto (#28, English and Icelandic) icelandchicago.org/2024/12/27/i...
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11. Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas (tr. Bibbi Lee). One woman’s immersive monologue recounting the wounding love affair that has shaped her life brims with arresting philosophical aperçus, freighted by a keen sensitivity to the injustices of capitalist existence.
February 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
11. Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas (tr. Bibbi Lee). One woman’s immersive monologue recounting the wounding love affair that has shaped her life brims with arresting philosophical aperçus, freighted by a keen sensitivity to the injustices of capitalist existence.
A.V. Marraccini is a writer, based in New York who has had their essay "Mutta on toisia geometrioita" translated & published in Finland, by the press Poesia.
I chatted with A.V. & Poesia's Erkka Filander (who is a Runeberg prize nominated poet himself).
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
I chatted with A.V. & Poesia's Erkka Filander (who is a Runeberg prize nominated poet himself).
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
In Conversation with A.V. Marraccini & Erkka Filander.
By Gregory Conway. A.V. Marraccini (she/her) is critic, art historian and essayist based in New York. I came across their work through their wonderful book We The Parasites (2023), out in Canada on…
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December 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A.V. Marraccini is a writer, based in New York who has had their essay "Mutta on toisia geometrioita" translated & published in Finland, by the press Poesia.
I chatted with A.V. & Poesia's Erkka Filander (who is a Runeberg prize nominated poet himself).
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
I chatted with A.V. & Poesia's Erkka Filander (who is a Runeberg prize nominated poet himself).
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
Per Esben Svelstad holds a Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works in the topics of ecocriticism, queer reading, literary education and more.
I interviewed him about his 2024 book "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
I interviewed him about his 2024 book "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
In Conversation With Per Esben Svelstad.
By Gregory Conway Per Esben Svelstad is a Professor at NTNU, Norway. In 2017 he completed a queer theory focused Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works around the topics of ecocritici…
lonningspils.ca
December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Per Esben Svelstad holds a Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works in the topics of ecocriticism, queer reading, literary education and more.
I interviewed him about his 2024 book "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
I interviewed him about his 2024 book "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
some recent nordic reads
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
some recent nordic reads
quietly put some new stuff on the website:
an interview with edy poppy, who just released their new book with dalkey / deep vellum.
+ reviews of both their new book coming. apart. & their debut, anatomy. monotony.
lonningspils.ca
an interview with edy poppy, who just released their new book with dalkey / deep vellum.
+ reviews of both their new book coming. apart. & their debut, anatomy. monotony.
lonningspils.ca
November 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
quietly put some new stuff on the website:
an interview with edy poppy, who just released their new book with dalkey / deep vellum.
+ reviews of both their new book coming. apart. & their debut, anatomy. monotony.
lonningspils.ca
an interview with edy poppy, who just released their new book with dalkey / deep vellum.
+ reviews of both their new book coming. apart. & their debut, anatomy. monotony.
lonningspils.ca