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Nora Charles ([personal profile] noracharles) wrote 2010-03-04 08:56 pm (UTC)

I think that you probably could write in Dutch, but you'd have to work at it harder, because you've never developed your creative writing in that language, and maybe you're like me and don't even like reading Dutch?

Not that I don't like reading Dutch, because actually I think it's an incredibly charming language; I mean, I strongly dislike literary Danish unless it's an exceptional author. I read it so rarely that when I do it looks fake to me, and I particularly hate mediocre translations that are too colored by the original language, and how that weird style influences the works of writers who write in Danish.

Sometimes I toy with the thought of writing some YA fiction in Danish and trying to get it published, and then I wonder if my rejection of all anglicisms and stilted language would be a plus or would be too weird for the conservative book market here. Hopefully I'll find out some day :-)

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