Literary Translations

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  • Omega

    JOHANNES ANYURU

    Swedish - 80 pp - poetry

    Interweaving reflection on the death of a close friend to cancer with the death of hundreds of people everyday across the globe.

  • 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 - 384 pp - 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.

  • Book

    LÍV MARIA RÓADÓTTIR JÆGER

    Faroese – 60 pp – poetry

    An modern creation story across 54 poems that eschews the lyrical “I” in favor of a mythical “they”

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Who Was My Mother on Earth

    JILA MOSSAED

    Swedish - 250 pp - poetry

    New and collected poems from the Swedish by the Iranian-Swedish poet and Swedish Academy member

  • Accumulation of Origin

    FELICIA MULINARI

    Swedish - 234 pp - novel

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

  • Blood Book

    BURCU SAHIN

    Swedish - 108 pp - poetry

    An experimentally poetic investigation into the archive’s role as an arbiter of national identity, cultural memory, history, and state-sanctioned and -perpetrated violence

  • 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 Forsaken

    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 - 170 pp - prose

    Language, depression, spiritual awakenings, and the human condition

    Excerpt appears in: Firmament

  • The Malady

    BIRGITTA TROTZIG

    Swedish - 245 pp - novel

    How the machine of modern society can crush the human spirit