A Documentary by Jesper Huor 7 p.m., Tuesday, October 26, 2010, at DEUTSCHES HAUS, 420 West 116th Street, N.Y.C.
With the recent rise of world interest in Scandinavia’s best-selling mysteries, we are pleased to present this staged reading of an award-winning radio documentary on a sensational Swedish intellectual crime: the theft of some of the most valuable treasures from the collections of Sweden’s national library by none other than the chief of its rare book and manuscript division.
Translated from the Swedish by Verne Moberg. Directed by Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz.
This documentary drama first appeared in Sweden as an article in VI magazine in autumn 2008 and also on Swedish Radio, for which the author was awarded the Grand Radio Prize for the best reportage of 2009.
The public is invited and admission is free. Listen to the author’s back story and Q & A after the show, then stay for the reception.

JESPER HUOR was born in East Berlin in 1975 and grew up in Stockholm. He has worked for Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, TT, and Swedish Radio. His first book, Sista resan till Phnom Penh (The Last Journey to Phnom Penh), was favorably reviewed and has been published in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He has traveled in and written about South America, China, and Southeast Asia. Huor’s last book, I väntan på talibanerna (Waiting for the Taliban), published in September 2010, features personal interviews conducted in Afghanistan at the close of the first decade of this century.

Sponsored by the Columbia Swedish Program with the assistance of the Swedish Women's Educational Association—New York Chapter and the Friends of Columbia Libraries.
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