Nordic Voices in Translation

My translation of Pia Tafdrup's Senses pentalogy (five-volume collection), on which I have been working with the author during the past...

 by  Ólafur Gunnarsson  (from the short story collection Herörin og fleiri sögur Forlagið 2023) It is fair to say that he had been at my hee...

by Ólafur Gunnarsson for Andrei Tarkovsky It is 1938. My sister Elisabeth is five years old. My own birth is ten years in the future. My sis...

  by  Ólafur Gunnarsson  ( from the short story collection  Herörin og fleiri sögur  Forlagið 2023) He had arrived at church half an hour be...

 https://akonkka.blogspot.com/2024/01/dostojevskista.html

https://swedishbookreview.org/130-years-and-counting-finland-swedish-poetry

http://bukdahl.blogspot.com/2016/06/exklusivt-strunge-tale-i-mai-for-caspar.html https://litteratursiden.dk/artikler/tale-til-caspar-eric ht...

Älvan och jordanden. En biografi om Mirjam Tuominen och Torsten Korsström Tuva Korsström Schildts & Söderströms 2018 Tuva Korsström’s lo...

Skymningens röst: dikter av Stagnelius, Lenngren och Bremer  Listen to the album on your preferred music service    Today, the internationa...

Edmund Prestwich has reviewed my translation of Tua Forsström's Anteckningar . Among other things he writes: Memories and images are...

As a side note on the accessibility of Swedish texts, I have found that it's possible to download Swedish ebooks from Adlibris via Goo...

Something that occurred to me a few years ago when working on my new translation of Karin Boye’s 1940 novel Kallocain (Penguin Classics, 20...

A Russian campaign against pending NATO members Finland and Sweden appears to be a continuation of similar propaganda seen in the Russian ca...

 With thanks to Ian Giles. 

The Ny dansk poesi / New Danish Poetry exhibition at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Skindergade 5,  Copenhagen is now extended until August 18...

Spuyten Duyvil of NYC have published my translation of Susanne Jorn 's Andalusiske øjebliksbilleder i November/Andalusian Snapshots in ...

An interesting afternoon at a Zoom meeting of FELT , the Finnish-English literary translators association or cooperative. There was much det...

The book has been reviewed in the journal Scandinavian-Canadian Studies . An excerpt: Though his work is still widely read in Iceland, Hjá...

 I'm pleased and honoured that, together with my fellow translator Gisela Kosubek , I've been awarded the Swedish Academy's Int...

  Titles to look forward to from Bloodaxe Books in March Maria Stepanova (trs Sasha Dugdale):  War of the Beasts and the Animals  (PBS Trans...

  In November this year Bloodaxe will publish my translation of Tua Forsström's fifteenth collection Anteckningar (2018), with the Eng...

The theme of the new issue of  Swedish Book Review (now re-conceived exclusively as an online publication) is Emerging Voices in Swedish Lit...

An interesting and thought-provoking interview with Estonian poet Elo Viiding in the current issue of ELM (Estonian Literary Magazine), wi...

 Bloodaxe are reissuing a range of European poetry classics , including three Nordic titles in my translation: - Edith Södergran, Complete P...

The audiobook of my translation of Kallocain is now available from Audible, in a reading by Danish actor Claes Bang.   Also from Amazon .

Me reading my translations of 'Ånd', 'Prana' and 'Rimtåge' from Pia Tafdrup's LUGTEN AF SNE.

I'm working on the translation of this book again, after an interval of just over twenty years. It's important for an inward u...

A beautifully produced issue of ELM , the Estonian Literary Magazine, just arrived. Some interesting content, all available online , inc...

In the fifth month of Scots Gaelic, a periodic reminder of the Norse and Nordic influence on the language, words that have a familiar ring t...

News from Penguin that there's to be an audiobook recording of my translation of Karin Boye's KALLOCAIN, scheduled for release in Ju...

At Literary Hub, Siri Hustvedt writes about Reading in a Pandemic : I had headache, body aches, chills, cough, chest constriction but no ...

Norvik Press has some excerpts from new translations of Hagar Olsson's Chitambo  (tr. Sarah Death) and Karin Boye's Crisis  (tr....

Also on the theme of Faroese writing, there's an extensive dual-language anthology of contemporary Faroese poetry in a special iss...

William Heinesen (1900-1991) is probably still the best-known Faroese writer internationally - perhaps because he wrote in Danish, and per...

by Pia Tafdrup We have learned that a wing-beat from a butterfly on one side of the globe can cause a storm on the other, ...

My translation of Pia Tafdrup's poem 'På alle sprog' (from the Bloodaxe volume S alamander Sun and Other Poem s) was chosen fo...

There's an interesting review of my Penguin Classics translation  of Karin Boye's dystopian novel Kallocain  with a number of perce...

My translation of Pia Tafdrup's collections SMAGEN AF STÅL (2014) and LUGTEN AF SNE (2016) is scheduled for publication as a single...

My translation of Karin Boye's novel Kallocain is now published in Penguin Classics.

Burcu Sahin’s debut collection Broderier [Embroideries] (Bonniers, 2019) is a book about the relation between language and re...