We walk to the sea, and in one way we are a form waiting for collapse, in another we are that collapse already, at some other stage. You say a few things about how the war will proceed. How we should act. The crystallisation that is forever going on. Protest against the basic conditions, the refusal to even accept such terms. Everything else is madness, and worse: futile, without will.
And then again: the light of morning.
JOSEFINE KLOUGART (b. 1985) has been hailed as one of Denmark’s greatest contemporary writers. Klougart is the author of five novels, two were nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, Scandinavia’s most prestigious literary award, and she received the Danish Royal Prize for Culture in 2011 with the committee stating that she is “one of the most important writers, not just of her generation, but of her time.” Her English-language debut novel, One of Us is Sleeping, was published by Open Letter Books in 2016, also translated by Martin Aitken.
MARTIN AITKEN is an award-winning translator of Scandinavian literature. His translations include novels by authors such as Dorthe Nors, Peter Høeg, Helle Helle, and Pia Juul. He was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize, and has been longlisted for both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Aitken’s co-translation with Don Bartlett of the sixth book in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle sextology is forthcoming in 2017.
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MICHÈLE AUDIN · One Hundred Twenty-One Days
translated by Christiana Hills · FRANCE
CARMEN BOULLOSA · Texas: The Great Theft · Before
translated by Samantha Schnee · translated by Peter Bush · MEXICO
LEILA S. CHUDORI · Home
translated by John H. McGlynn · INDONESIA
ALISA GANIEVA · The Mountain and the Wall
translated by Carol Apollonio · RUSSIA
ANNE GARRÉTA · Sphinx
translated by Emma Ramadan · FRANCE
JÓN GNARR · The Indian · The Pirate
translated by Lytton Smith · ICELAND
NOEMI JAFFE · What are the Blind Men Dreaming?
translated by Julia Sanches & Ellen Elias-Bursac · BRAZIL
JUNG YOUNG MOON · Vaseline Buddha
translated by Yewon Jung · SOUTH KOREA
FOUAD LAROUI · The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers
translated by Emma Ramadan · MOROCCO
LINA MERUANE · Seeing Red
translated by Megan McDowell · CHILE
FISTON MWANZA MUJILA · Tram 83
translated by Roland Glasser · DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
ILJA LEONARD PFEIJFFER · La Superba
translated by Michele Hutchison · NETHERLANDS
RICARDO PIGLIA · Target in the Night
translated by Sergio Waisman · ARGENTINA
SERGIO PITOL · The Art of Flight · The Journey
translated by George Henson · MEXICO
MIKHAIL SHISHKIN · Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories
translated by Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin,
Mariya Bashkatova, Sylvia Maizell · RUSSIA
SERHIY ZHADAN · Voroshilovgrad
translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes & Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler · UKRAINE
COMING FALL/SPRING 2016–2017 FROM DEEP VELLUM
CARMEN BOULLOSA · Heavens on Earth
translated by Shelby Vincent · MEXICO
ANANDA DEVI · Eve Out of Her Ruins
translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman · MAURITIUS
JÓN GNARR · The Outlaw
translated by Lytton Smith · ICELAND
CLAUDIA SALAZAR JIMÉNEZ · Blood of the Dawn
translated by Elizabeth Bryer · PERU
JOSEFINE KLOUGART · Of Darkness
translated by Martin Aitken · DENMARK
SERGIO PITOL · The Magician of Vienna
translated by George Henson · MEXICO
EDUARDO RABASA · A Zero-Sum Game
translated by Christina MacSweeney · MEXICO
BAE SUAH · Recitation
translated by Deborah Smith · SOUTH KOREA
JUAN RULFO · The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings
translated by Douglas J. Weatherford · MEXICO
ANNE GARRÉTA · Not One Day
translated by Emma Ramadan · FRANCE
YANICK LAHENS · Moonbath
translated by Emily Gogolak · HAITI
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