LATEST TRANSLATION
from Pride of Lions
Linda Jones's latest offering is a layered text about complex questions of revenge and responsibility, viewed through the prism of secondary-school friendships.
Translated by Alice Menzies.
Image credit: Maria Fäldt.
Translations
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from Chambers of the Heart by Claes Andersson
Three poems from this volume of selected poems, 1962-2012, demonstrating the poet's unique style of expression.
Translated by Benjamin Mier-Cruz
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from Starved by Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo
Helsinki's last vampire slips like a cat across the rooftops of Finland's capital, with only one wish: to die.
Translated by Sarah Death
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from One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake by Tua Forsström
Meditations on the texture of human experience. A selection from one of Tua Forsström's collections of poems.
Translated by David MacDuff
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from Underfors by Maria Turtschaninoff
'A highly original fantasy novel for young people ... teeming with goblins, sprites, kelpies, pixies and sorceresses.'
Translated by Agnes Broomé
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from Mirage 38 by Kjell Westö
The title refers to the unrealistic notion of business as usual in 1938, as the world heads inexorably towards crisis and conflict.
Translated by Sarah Death
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from Ice by Ulla-Lena Lundberg
A Nordic bestseller, set in a Lutheran island community in the 1940s.
Translated by Thomas Teal
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from Lola Upside-Down by Monika Fagerholm
A classic thriller set against the backdrop of the sluggish and suspicious dynamic of small-town life.
Translated by Anna Holmwood
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from Asphalt Angels by Johanna Holmström
This novel navigates the complexities of being young, female and Muslim in Finland
Translated by Nichola Smalley
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from The Grass is Darker on the Other Side by Kaj Korkea-aho
An enthralling and psychologically convincing portrayal of a group of young people trying to find their place in life.
Translated by Kevin Halliwell
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from She-Mares (a manner for you) by Matilda Södergran
In this collection, the poet uses experimental language to continue her exploration of the female body as myth and metaphor.
Translated by Anna Tebelius
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from Fallwater by Mikael Niemi
Disaster strikes in the far north of Sweden. How will the people react?
Translated by Laurie Thompson
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from Grand Finale in the Trickster's Trade by Kerstin Ekman
A leading novelist reads a manuscript threatening to reveal that the books she has published over the last 50 years have been written by a ghostwriter...
Translated by Linda Schenck
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from The Island by Lotta Lundberg
A novel based on a true event which took place on the island of Pitcairn in the Pacific Ocean.
Translated by Susan Beard
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The Poles by Fredrik Lindström
A humorous look at the modern human state of always waiting for one more thing before our lives can really start.
Translated by Steve Dawson
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from Happily Ever After by Nina Björk
An analysis of contemporary society and the discrepancy between the principle of equal worth and the reality of inequality.
Translated by Dominic Hinde
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The Great Silence by Sirius's Nose by Ingela Strandberg
'A fusion of Sylvia Plath and Elisabeth Bishop, [...] with a Swedish sensibility transported half a century forward.'
Translated by Göran Malmqvist
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from The New Kingdom by August Strindberg
An extract from a volume of satirical sketches and short stories written in 1882, in which Strindberg takes aim at some of his critics.
Translated by Peter Graves
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from The Third Flight Speed by Lotta Lotass
An extract from the fourth novel of experimental writer Lotta Lotass.
Translated by Eric Dickens