Stig Dagerman

Praise for A Moth to a Flame

Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion

Graham Greene

Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence

Colm Toibin

There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of ...

Times Literary Supplement

Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion

Graham Greene

Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence

Colm Toibin

There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of ...

Times Literary Supplement

Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion

Graham Greene

Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence

Colm Toibin

There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of ...

Times Literary Supplement