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  • The Entire Hungry Darkness All Around

    KERSTIN BECKER

    German - 72 pp - poetry

    About the shimmer of sticky summer sweat and the grime that binds everything together

    Poems appear in: Action Books Blog, ANMLY

  • Nowhere Land/Women in Revolt

    MONIKA FAGERHOLM

    Swedish - 384pp - novel

    About being so young that live is a horizon of possibilities and revolution, against a backdrop where everything has happened and much more is impending.

  • On Your Marks

    ANNA HALLBERG

    Swedish - 96 pp - poetry

    A bold collection of experimental poetry that explores and excises language’s metaphorical conventions.

    Poem appears in: Exchanges

  • Fafnir the Dragon

    JENS PAULI HEINESEN

    Faroese - 450 pp - novel

    An epic novel of ideas with mythological themes and political reflection set in a dystopian Tórshavn taken over by a fascist dictator.

    Excerpt appears in: NCW Emerging Translator Anthology 2025

  • Slates

    ESTHER KINSKY

    German - 100 pp - poetry

    On the movement of memory and metamorphic rock

  • Flame and Darkness

    ROSKVA KORITZINSKY

    Norwegian - 167 pp - novel

    In 2010, renowned filmmaker Hedda Veier takes her own life. Four years later, a film critic travels to the island where the suicide took place.

  • No One Holy

    ROSKVA KORITZINSKY

    Norwegian - 97 pp - stories

    About the gothic, the mystical, the lingering, and the fleeting

    Story appears in: Joyland

  • You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place

    ELI LEVÉN

    Swedish - 157 pp - novella

    Love, sexuality, gender defiance, and queer icon Saint Sebastian

  • Death by Muses

    Friederike Mayröcker

    German - 200pp - poetry

    The first major collection by one of the towering figures of 20th century experimental European poetry

  • Accumulation of Origin

    FELICIA MULINARI

    Swedish - 234 pp - novel

    Apathy, resistance, forgotten utopias, and love letters to Karl Marx

  • Anima

    BIRGITTA TROTZIG

    Swedish - 90 pp - poetry

    Poetic dialogue, the cosmos, nature, and the state of the world

    Poems appear in: On the Seawall, Another Chicago Magazine, Ekphrastic Review

  • The Exposed

    BIRGITTA TROTZIG

    Swedish - 200 pp - novel

    An existential exploration of the human condition in the form of an historical novel set during the late 17th century Scanian war between Sweden and Denmark

  • A Landscape

    BIRGITTA TROTZIG

    Swedish - 170pp - prose

    Language, depression, spiritual awakenings, and the human condition

    Excerpt appears in: Firmament

  • The Malady

    BIRGITTA TROTZIG

    Swedish - 245pp - novel

    How the machine of modern society can crush the human spirit