Translation Tuesday is an on-going series of translations focused on contemporary Scandinavian literature. In this edition of Translation Tuesday, Sheri and Neus have translated an excerpt from Olga Ravn’s recent novel, De Ansatte (2018), into English and Spanish. “A workplace novel from the 22nd century,” De Ansatte is Olga Ravn’s science fiction debut. The novel threads… Keep Reading
In 1929, Virginia Woolf wrote a manifesto in prose form, the well-known A Room of One’s Own. In this essay, short text, whatever you want to call it, she reflects on the relationship between women and fiction. Overall, she exposes to the greater audience the idea (and reality) that 1. through history, women have been denied… Keep Reading
If you’ve flipped through the literature sections of Politiken, Weekendavisen, or Information over the course of the past few months, or taken a stroll past Møllegades Boghandel on your way to Ark Books, you’ve likely seen the face of Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976), one of Denmark’s most widely-read twentieth-century authors, who just a few months ago… Keep Reading