Kari Dickson

2 months ago | startribune.com | Cory Oldweiler |Erling Kagge |Kari Dickson

Nonfiction: An engaging history of the quest to reach the North Pole from a Norwegian explorer who knows all about extreme trips. Erling Kagge (Simon Skreddernes/HarperOne)In 1994, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge completed the “Three Poles Challenge,” becoming the first person to reach the North Pole, South Pole and summit of Mount Everest on foot — without using dogs, supply drops or motorized aids.

Mar 28, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Øyvind Torseter |Kari Dickson |Matt Phelan |Candace Fleming

From the My Alter Ego Is a Superhero series , Vol. 2 by Håkon Øvreås ; illustrated by Øyvind Torseter ; translated by Kari Dickson ‧ Øvreås follows up his Batchelder Award–winning Brown (2019), originally published in Norway, with a similarly poker-faced middle volume.

Feb 10, 2023 | startribune.com | Gunnhild Øyehaug |Kari Dickson

Thirteen months after the spectacular novel "Present Tense Machine," Norwegian author Gunnhild Øyehaug and her longtime English translator Kari Dickson are back with a story collection, "Evil Flowers." On the surface, this slim volume of two dozen short stories, some of which are only a couple of pages long, would seem antithetical to last year's intricate novel of parallel worlds, which features gloriously cascading drawn-out sentences.