Martin Simonson
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Martin Simonson (1973) is a Swedish scholar, novelist, and translator, specialized in fantastic literature and nature writing. He teaches Swedish language and literature at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. He has written several novels and a book-length essay on The Lord of the Rings. He has also translated novels from English and Swedish into Spanish, as well as books on American history, and published many articles and chapters in books on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. He is married and has two daughters.
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Articles
- 2005: Reconsidering Tolkien:
- "The Lord of the Rings in the Wake of the Great War: War, Poetry, Modernism, and Ironic Myth"
- 2006: Tolkien Studies: Volume 3:
- "Three is Company: Novel, Fairy Tale, and Romance on the Journey through the Shire"
- 2006: Tolkien and Modernity 2:
- "An Introduction to the Dynamics of the Intertraditional Dialogue in The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Heroic Evolution"
- 2007: Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings:
- "Recovering the 'Utterly Alien Land': Tolkien and Transcendentalism"
- 2008: Tolkien's Shorter Works:
- "Redefining the Romantic Hero: a Reading of Smith of Wootton Major in the Light of Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg"
