Thank you, Valued Reader. You’ve been very patient during my two-day absence from this blog, and your reward will be TWO posts from me today. I am in a benevolent mood.
This post in particular is to announce the release of the biographical novel, Hans Nielsen Hauge: The Torchbearer, a fictional biography of the Norwegian lay evangelist. I did not translate this work, whose original author is Inger Anna Maridal Drangsholt, but I edited the manuscript, so the marks of my genius are all over the final product.
I’ve written about Hauge many times before on this blog, having a long family history in the Haugean movement; some of my ancestors knew the man personally. The Torchbearer is aimed at young adults, but I found it a very engaging and lively dramatization and I’m pretty excited about it. I recommend it for anyone unfamiliar with Hauge’s story.
Thanks for this – it sounds good! A good book “aimed at young adults” is always a good read, to my mind. For some reason your link did not take me to anything about the book, but I copy-pasted in her name on site at Amazon and found it at once.
A general online search, however, found scads of results – but all in (I take it) Norwegian (unless they were in assorted equally unfamiliar Scandinavian languages)!
Link fixed.