Grete Roulund — the critics' secret darling

Felix Rothstein and Caroline Enghoff are librarians in Copenhagen Libraries and literary critics for Politiken and Berlingske, respectively. And then they have a common favorite author that few people today know: Grete Roulund.

Roulund travelled the world to gather inspiration for his novels, but wrote them a spit of spit from Blågårdens Bibliotek. The whisky-drinking, big-smoking, leather-vester-wearing Roulund made Hemingway look like a schoolboy and her books are unprecedentedly diabolical and bleak - and, not least, immensely well-written with a sense of both linguistic finesse and suspense curves. When she died in 2004, she was referred to in obituaries as the Master of Darkness and compared to Vergil in Dante's Inferno — a guide who eagerly guides us around Hell.

Gladiator Publishers re-released the rabies horror Black Hawk in 2018, but other than that, the books are about to languish into oblivion. It has to be a lie! This year Roulund would have turned 80 and there is only one thing to say: Gotta get Grete into your life!

At this event, Felix and Caroline talk about Roulund's colourful life and career — from dachshund breeder to Denmark's Stephen King — and introduce their favourite books among Roulund's many works. It's going to be about doom, epidemics, climate crisis and human evil.

Convenient

Date: 10/11

Time: 7 p.m.

Place: Blågårdens Bibliotek

Free and without registration - just hook up