Translation Spotlight: Olga Ravn and Martin Aitken
Check out the Booker Prizes interview with Danish author Olga Ravn and translator Martin Aitken about Ravn’s The Wax Child here!
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Out This Month: September
Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, translated from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood (S&S/Summit Books, September 2) Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of radical sympathy toward criminals has become normalized. The incarcerated are considered victims influenced by their environments to commit crime and are labeled accordingly as Homo miserabilis. A grand,
Review: The Employees by Olga Ravn
translated by Martin Aitken Lolli Editions (2020), New Directions (2022) 133 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library Olga Ravn’s The Employees is the first work of Danish SFT I’ve ever read, and it doesn’t disappoint. Presented as a series of statements given to a committee by human
