Holm, Sven
Entry updated 9 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1940-2019) Danish author who worked in various modes, from realism to Kafka-inspired modernism. His one sf work, Termush, Atlanterhavskysten ["Termush, Atlantic Coast"] (1967; trans Sylvia Clayton as Termush 1969), tells of the Post-Holocaust psychological problems encountered by a group of rich survivors, initially safe in their luxury shelter after a nuclear World War Three, but who must deal with their fellow humans starving outside the walls. While bona fide sf, Termush is also a parable of the alienation of modern, materialistic Man. [ND/JC]
Sven Holm
born Copenhagen, Denmark: 13 April 1940
died Copenhagen, Denmark: 11 May 2019
works
- Termush, Atlanterhavskysten ["Termush, Atlantic Coast"] (Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal, 1967) [hb/]
- Termush (London: Faber and Faber, 1969) [trans by Sylvia Clayton of the above: hb/]
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