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Books: What the doctor ordered; Per Olov Enquist's gripping tragedy of passion and revolution has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Boyd Tonkin hails the Swedish conqueror.(Features)
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April 12, 2003| Author:
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The Visit of the Royal Physician
Per Olov Enquist
trans. Tiina Nunnally
Harvill
pounds 16.99, 309pp
pounds 14.99 (plus pounds 1.99 p&p per order) from 0870 8001122
THE SWEDISH novelist, playwright and screenwriter Per Olov Enquist has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Visit of the Royal Physician. A prolific, innovative and often controversial figure in Swedish and Scandinavian culture since the Sixties, Enquist shares the pounds 10,000 award with his translator, Tiina Nunnally. Already a success in 20 countries, Enquist's historical ...
