Who Killed Bambi?
Monika Fagerholm
Spring 2026 | University of Wisconsin Press | 220 pages
Translated from Swedish
Winner – 2020 Nordic Council Literature Prize
Winner – National Endowment of the Arts Translation Grant (translator)
Who Killed Bambi? is a short, kaleidoscopic novel that follows the fallout of a gang rape committed by a group of wealthy teenage boys from a fictional Finnish suburb. A decade after the violent incident, the silence that’s kept the town in its grip begins to unravel when a resident planning a film about the crime called "Who Killed Bambi?"
“What more can I say, other than that Monika Fagerholm’s novel is a stylistic masterpiece.” — Information (Denmark)
“There are some things that should never change in this world. Monika Fagerholm’s prose is one of them.” — Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
“Who Killed Bambi? is a social study – immensely political beneath a rough, grooved surface.” — Die Presse (Germany)
“A great literary experience!” — ARD (Germany)
“An amazing novelist.” — Karl Ove Knausgaard
An excerpt appears in: The White Review