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For more information, contact Janet Blixt, (218) 723-4743 or j.blixt@lsc.edu
Norwegian Writer Solveig Torvik to Read At Lake Superior College 
(Duluth, Minn.,) -- Lake Superior College (LSC) will host Norwegian-born writer Solveig Torvik on Thursday, May 4, at 7 p.m. in the Library's Minnesota Room. Torvik will read from her debut novel, Nikolai's Fortune.
Torvik was a reporter, editor, and columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for thirty years. She was also a reporter for United Press International in Salt Lake City and for the San Francisco Chronicle, and an editor at the San Jose Mercury News.
As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune, leaving Torvik's great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind. As a reporter, Torvik was determined to discover the fate of the man who followed his dreams to Oregon. She uncovered not only the story of one man, but also the saga of an entire family. In Nikolai's Fortune, a tale of Scandinavian women, the journalist turns fact into fiction and shares the tales of her ancestors as she imagines they would have told them.
Nikolai's Fortune is an historical novel based on the lives of four generations of women in Solveig Torvik's family in Finland, Norway and Idaho. It paints a closely researched picture of the lives endured by ordinary women in Scandinavia at the time, and examines the consequences of broken bonds between mothers and daughters.
For more information on the author and her book:
www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/TORNIK.html
With more than 5,000 students enrolled this spring semester, LSC is Northeastern Minnesota's largest two-year college. LSC provides a wide range of programs and services, including liberal arts and science courses for transfer, technical programs intended to provide occupational skills, continuing education, and customized training for business and industry. LSC is also the leader in Internet-delivered courses and programs in Minnesota.
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