![]() In October 1987 she founded Iperborea and went to her first Frankfurt Book Fair with a list of the first 15 titles she had loved in France. Back in Italy, she realized she could no longer read those wonderful authors simply because they were not published. She discovered the great Scandinavian classics (Strindberg and Ibsen, who are constantly staged in theatres both in France and Italy, and also less familiar authors such as Selma Lagerlöf and Pär Lagerkvist) and, little by little, contemporary writers who were beginning to be translated in France at that time (at the beginning of the 1980s). Tolkien, then through her passion for Karen Blixen. ![]() It was founded by Emilia Lodigiani in 1987, with the aim of promoting Northern European literature and culture in Italy. Emilia discovered Scandinavian literature during her ten-year stay in Paris, first through her studies on J.R.R. An example is provided by Iperborea, a publishing house based in Milano. ![]() But in actual fact, the geography of mankind includes vast tracts of uncharted intellectual territory waiting for a pioneer. ![]() One could imagine that after millennia of civilization and with billions of people living on the globe, that there is not much left to explore. ![]()
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