Tore Rem

Lecture in the Adventure Hall at The Hamsun Centre , Tuesday, August 4

Breakfast conversation 5th floor, Friday August 7th

Author and professor

Tore Rem (b. 1967) is one of the most significant and productive literary and cultural figures of Norwegian contemporary times. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Oxford in 1998 with a thesis on Charles Dickens. He has worked as a researcher, associate professor and professor of British literature and cultural studies with a number of important lectures, articles, critically acclaimed biographies and scholarly works related to British and Norwegian literature. Rem has received a number of awards for his work. An important work in the Hamsun reception was The Journey to Hitler (2014). Rem is a professor at the University of Oslo and from 2023 director of the interdisciplinary research initiative UiO:Democracy. 

In recent years, Tore Rem, together with translator and professor Terence Cave, has prepared new English translations of Hamsun's books Hunger and Pan . Why were new English translations needed? Why these books in particular? What is new about their translations? Rem and Cave will tell us about their translation work and give us examples of challenges and solutions. 

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