At Stockholm City Library’s branches, almost 500 people are now queuing for the four copies of “Red Autobiography” that were purchased when the book was announced. At libraries in Värmland, 64 people are queuing for twelve copies of “Red Autobiography”, a title also recommended as a good introduction to the Canadian poet and author.
There is strong pressure on her to be a poet, says Andreas Johansson, a library assistant in Karlstad.
Carson’s books are out of print at Swedish publishers, but Albert Bonniers is currently reprinting “Eros the Bittersweet”, “Red Doc”, “The Beauty of the Husband” and “Red Autobiography”. The plan is to publish them at the end of October.
The same applies to Ellerströms förlag, where publisher Marie Pettersson responds in an email:
“All four of our titles are out of print, but we’ve already sent them all for reprint.”
The reprints of “Norma Jean Baker of Troy”, “Idle Men” and “In Brief” will be published on November 25. The latest book, “Fel Norma”, will come “only a little later” because it is a four-color book with Anne Carson’s own illustrations.
