COLLECTIONS Swedish Cults by Anders Fager, translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch and Ian Lemke (Valancourt Books, September 6) Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as a place where dark and unimaginable things happen. Where deep in the woods bloody sacrifices are made to
SHORT STORIES “Gamma” by Oskar Källner, translated from the Swedish by Gordon James Jones (Clarkesworld, May 1) “The Possibly Brief Life of Guang Hansheng” by Liang Qingsan, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, May 1) NOVELS The Shining Sea by Suzuki Koji, translated from the Japanese by Brian
I reviewed Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel I am the Tiger, translated by Marlaine Delargy, for Strange Horizons. Here’s an excerpt from the review: Perhaps that’s because John Ajvide Lindqvist was a magician before he was a writer, a line of work he details in I Always Find You, the book that precedes I
Marlaine Delargy grew up in Manchester, England; studied in Aberystwyth, Wales; worked in Sweden and Finland; and taught in Welshpool in Powys and Bewdley in Worcestershire until 2004. She now lives in rural Shropshire with the obligatory collection of spoiled cats. Rachel Cordasco: You have translated many Swedish texts, the majority
SHORT STORIES “I’m Feeling Lucky” by Leonid Kaganov, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, July 1) COLLECTIONS Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Honford Star, July ?) Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the
SHORT STORIES “The Orbiting Guan Erye” by Wang Zhenzhen, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, March 1). “The Second Celeste” by Alberto Chimal, translated from the Spanish by Patrick Weill (Future Science Fiction Digest, March 15) “The Two Festivals that Cannot Coexist” by Liu Cixin, translated from
SHORT STORIES “No One Ever Leaves Port Henri” by K. A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Galaxy’s Edge, September 1). “The Book Reader” by Keishi Kajifune, translated from the Japanese by Toshiya Kamei (Clarkesworld, September 1). “Casualties of the Quake” by Wang
SHORT STORIES “The Plague” by Yan Leisheng, translated by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, August 1). NOVELS Lame Fate/Ugly Swans by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated from the Russian by Maya Vinokour (Chicago Review Press, August 4). Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the
Jagannath, translated by the author (Cheeky Frawg Books, 2012). “A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated readers
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)
