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Stig Dalager
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Stig Dalager (b. 1952) is one of the most productive writers of his generation in Scandinavia and co-editor of the Nordic edition of the Jewish Magazine "Outlook". With 47 published works of fiction, including novels, poetry and short story collections as well as plays, television and film scripts and a libretto, Dalager is one of the most prolific and esteemed writers in Denmark. Many of his works have been translated, (f.ex. into German: "Provinzidyllen", Ed. Mariannen Press, Berlin and "Ich zähle die Stunden", Verlag der Apfel, Vienna) while his holocaust novel "The Book of David" is translated into Russian and English. Dalager is represented in the short story anthology “Ein Fuss auf dem Mond (Piper Verlag, 2000) alongside Italo Calvino, Julian Barnes, Richard Ford and others.
Dalager’s latest historic novel, published last year and entitled To dage i juli (“Two Days in July”/Zwei Tage im Juli”)), will soon become a major film, as German film director Joseph Vielsmaier, known for his epic work STALINGRAD, is adapting the book and will direct the screen version. In July 2004 it was published in German by the reputated German publishing-house Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, having very fine reviews. The novel, revolving around authentic protagonists Graf Claus v. Stauffenberg, Adolf Hitler and the coup d'etat of July 20 1944, is structured as a contra-punctual narrative that spans two momentous days in WWII history: the 19th and 20th of July 1944 when a circle of heroic German soldiers plot and attempt a coup against the Hitler regime.
Prior to publishing the book, Dalager went to Berlin where he met with relatives of the July 20 dissenters. In Hamburg, he discussed the project with Marion Gräfin Dönhoff. In March 2002, Two Days in July was published by Tiderne Skifter in Denmark to much critical acclaim. Leading newspaper “Jyllandsposten” wrote:
