When thirteen-year-old Melinda is raped at a disorderly party, she calls the police, but she cannot bring herself to talk about what happened. Her literary breakthrough came with the young adult novel Speak (1999).

Laurie Halse Anderson, who published her debut novel in 1996, has experimented with many literary genres, including writing texts for children’s books and picture books. Here is resignation, even desperation, but also a determination for change kept alive by the search for meaning, identity, and truth. In her richly expressive novels for young people-all narrated in the first person-Anderson gives voice to the adolescent experience with sometimes brutal honesty. That is how Laurie Halse Anderson describes herself in her poetic memoir Shout (2019), and it is true for many of her main characters as well.

By Boel Westin och Elina Druker.Ī survivor who refuses to be silenced. Original title: The Impossible Knife of MemoryĪn In-Depth Look at the Work of Laurie Halse Anderson. Original title: The Impossible Knife of Memory Portuguese Original title: The impossible Knife of Memory Listed below are a selection of these translations. Laurie Halse Anderson’s works have been translated to more than 20 languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Hebrew, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 Translations New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 Laurie Halse Anderson, selected bibliography

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