Translates between Swedish and English • PhD on Literature & Human Rights @UCL • ✍🏻 in @Harpers, @MsMagazine, In Other Words, @SwedishBooks, etc.
Somewhere in the Swedish 🏔
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#Translation is saving me right now. When everything seems difficult, this wonderful, riveting, shimmering novel sings out to me and demands my full attention. It fills up my days and gives me a sense of purpose. Thank you, language.
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The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy (trans. Alice E. Olsson), illustrated by Anneli Furmark, is available now in all good bookshops.
Read the full interview here: scribepublications.com.au/bl…
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Earlier this year, our team sat down with author Clara Törnvall in anticipation of her newest novel, The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy.
We discuss her creative process, social discourse surrounding the book, and her thoughts on evolving cultural attitudes towards autism.
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Everyone has a task for the community …
Everyone is needed.
No one has to know everything.
We're extremely excited to unveil COLONY by Annika Norlin, translated by @AliceEOlsson, publish March 2025.
Preorder here: scribepublications.co.uk/boo…
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Swedish musician Annika Norlin is making her fiction debut at @scribeukbooks with Colony, about a young woman suffering from burnout and retreating to the woods to recover
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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Huge congratulations to @AliceEOlsson who is shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize for her translation of THE HERD by @johananderberg! 🎉
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Crazy thought (who am I) but do I know anyone with experience of pitching a story/translation to the New Yorker (fiction)?
Colleagues in the US! I’m looking for information about the going rates for translation among US publishers. I know there’s a whole thing about price fixing but any pointers are most welcome. So far, I’ve found the 2017 Authors Guild survey. 🤓
Translators of Twitter! I want your best thoughts on (not?) translating dialect. What do you do? What have you read on the topic that was inspiring/helpful? Thanks!
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We are delighted to announce the #2022InternationalBooker Shortlist! Congratulations to all six sets of authors and translators. Click here to read more about the six shortlisted books and the people who created them: thebookerprizes.com/IBP2022 #shortlist
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leaving academia is always difficult but i think will smith made the right decision
Calling all sailors! What do you call the thing you moor your sailboat to? Jetty, dock, or something else? And what English do you speak (UK, US, etc)? Thanks!! ⛵️
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“In war, mourning the loss of art, be it actual or anticipated, is not separate from mourning for the senseless disruption and destruction of human life. To live is to build, to repair, to illuminate, to leave traces in the fabric of time and space.”
For the wonderful @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about the fragility of glass and of people in war, about what survives and what breaks, and about my father's stained glass in Lviv. With tremendous thanks to @BorisDralyuk, who's the kindest editor I know. lareviewofbooks.org/short-ta…
