I reviewed the wonderful anthology Elemental for Strange Horizons. Here’s an excerpt from the review: Elemental—with stories translated from the Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Japanese, Kurdish, German, French, and Polish—is a lovely and sometimes disturbing exploration of the intersection of humanity and nature. This book, according to Two Lines, asks, “How can we understand our complex,
Twilight Country (Twilight Country #1), translated by Joan Tate (Dufour Editions, 1993). “A dark, end-of-the-millennium vision permeates this novel by Norwegian author Faldbakken. Fleeing from the collapsing economic, social and legal systems of Sweetwater, a dystopian city in an unnamed country, former architect Allan Ung takes his teenage wife, Lisa, and their four-year-old son,
Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. She was co-editor of the literary journal Vagant and Kraftsentrum and currently teaches creative writing. Profile in The New Yorker NOVEL Knots: Stories, translated by Kari Dickson (FSG, 2017). “First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug’s
Speculative fiction in English translation from the Nordic countries has been available as far back as the turn of the twentieth century. Since the beginning of the twenty-first, though, we’ve gotten a lot more, especially horror from Sweden and fantasy from Finland. During the month of June, I’ll be spotlighting this little-known (in the Anglosphere)
