Book Translations
The Space of Time
Katarina Frostenson
November 2024 | Threadsuns Press | 170 pages
Translated from Swedish
With an afterword by Carin Franzén
Winner of the 2016 Nordic Council Literature Prize
“Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time is an unsentimental and smoldering study of the ecological and utopic function of grief. Frostenson seems to speak to the universal orphan lost in the Open, in the landscape, in literature, in bedwarmth, and in lamentation. And Bradley Harmon’s English enchants and conjures with as much stupefying wonder as Frostenson’s Swedish does.” — Gabriel Gudding
“Translated by Bradley Harmon with great attention to its lyrical movement, this is the first English-language book by Frostenson, a leading poet in Sweden since the 1980s. Frostenson’s poetry combines philosophical inquiry (of language, experience, song) with arresting images, interrogation of language with a high lyrical velocity. The “lattice of language” moves and turns with a breathless momentum that lights up my synapses.” — Johannes Göransson
Click here for recordings of 12 poems read by the author (in Swedish)
Selected poems appear in: Anthropocene, The Dodge, The Hopkins Review, Oxonian Review, Plume, Tupelo Quarterly
Coming Soon
I Write on Wet Paper
Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger
Summer 2025 | Francis Boutle Publishers | 250 pages (bilingual)
Translated from Faroese
Winner of the 2020 Faroese Literature Prize
Nominated for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize
I Write on Wet Paper is about writing to understand relationships and the relationship between your own thoughts and the thoughts of all the others, and about understanding yourself as a child, a young woman and a human being participating in the lives of others.
“Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger is very conscious with a deep knowledge of literature and reflections on existence and writing…, inviting us into the engine room to see some of what has shaped the consciousness behind the poems.” — Kinna Poulsen
“Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger writes like no one else in the Faroe Islands…Her way of writing formally innovative texts is philosophically essential and poetically sensual all at once.” — Silja Aldudóttir
Click here to watch and hear the author describe the book.
Selected poems appear in: Circumference, Annulet Poetics Journal, Best Literary Translations 2025
Who Killed Bambi?
Monika Fagerholm
February 2026 | University of Wisconsin Press | 220 pages
Translated from Swedish
Winner of the 2020 Nordic Council Literature Prize
Who Killed Bambi? is a short, kaleidoscopic novel that follows the fallout of a gang rape committed by a group of wealthy teenage boys from a fictional Finnish suburb. A decade after the violent incident, the silence that’s kept the town in its grip begins to unravel when a resident planning a film about the crime called "Who Killed Bambi?"
“What more can I say, other than that Monika Fagerholm’s novel is a stylistic masterpiece.” — Information (Denmark)
“There are some things that should never change in this world. Monika Fagerholm’s prose is one of them.” — Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
“Who Killed Bambi? is a social study – immensely political beneath a rough, grooved surface.” — Die Presse (Germany)
“A great literary experience!” — ARD (Germany)
“An amazing novelist.” — Karl Ove Knausgaard
An excerpt appears in: The White Review
Only the Gods are New
Johannes Anyuru
2026 | Vanderbilt Universty Press | 90 pages
Translated from Swedish
With The Iliad as inspiration and intertext, Johannes Anyuru's 2003 debut is a flowing lyrical suite of poems depicting contemporary urban life in Sweden’s migrant suburbs. As if in a single, charged breath, the poem stretches from the first page to the last. It is strong, beautiful, urgent, painful, and glowing.
“It’s been a long time since I read such a stylistically self-assured debut. Anyuru is undoubtedly one of ‘the most powerful poets here / where the new meets itself / and the old must be scraped off, torn away so that time never has time to coagulate’”. — Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
“This is a new, real poet, a poet who conjures a kingdom of heavy concrete, populated by young warriors with the radioactive black neon of the world buzzing in their ears, and who does so with a confidence in the poetic image, in power of metaphor to make the visible visible.” — Aftonbladet (Sweden)
Selected poems appear in: Four Way Review, Long Poem Magazine, Massachusetts Review
Nonfiction
-
[TBA]
[TBA]
Translated from Swedish
Fall 2025
-
Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii
In the Works
Get in touch with me to discuss any of these
-
A Civilization Without Boats
JOHANNES ANYURU
Swedish - 152pp - Reportage/Essay
On Gaza as a pawn of Western politics
-
The Entire Hungry Darkness Enveloping
KERSTIN BECKER
German - 72 pp - poetry
About the shimmer of sticky summer sweat and the grime that binds everything together
Poems appear in: Action Books Blog, ANMLY
-
Seven Branches
KATARINA FROSTENSON
Swedish - 162 pp - poetry
About the existential insight born out of sustained attention to the quotidian
Poems appear in: Poetry Northwest, West Branch
-
I Haven't Yet Seen the World
ROSKVA KORITZINSKY
Norwegian - 92 pp - stories
About the darker side of love and affection
Stories appear in: Astra, Asymptote, Chicago Review
-
No One Holy
ROSKVA KORITZINSKY
Norwegian - 97 pp - stories
About the gothic, the mystical, and the contingent
Story appears in: Joyland
-
You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
ELI LEVÉN
Swedish - 157 pp - novella
Love, sexuality, gender defiance, and queer icon Saint Sebastian
-
Alphabet of Light: Selected Poems
JILA MOSSAED
Swedish - [length TBD] - Poetry
Exile, Language, War, Death, Nature
Poems appear in: Amsterdam Review, Loch Raven Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, Swedish Book Review
-
Accumulation of Origin
FELICIA MULINARI
Swedish - 234 pp - novel
Apathy, resistance, forgotten utopias, and love letters to Karl Marx
-
Anima
BIRGITTA TROTZIG
Swedish - 90 pp - poetry
Poetic dialogue, the cosmos, nature, and the state of the world
Poems appear in: On the Seawall, Another Chicago Magazine, Ekphrastic Review
-
A Landscape
BIRGITTA TROTZIG
Swedish - 170pp - Prose
Language, depression, spiritual awakenings, and the human condition
Excerpt appears in: Firmament
-
Fafnir the Dragon
JENS PAULI HEINESEN
Faroese - 450 pp - novel
An epic novel of ideas with mythological themes and political reflection set in a dystopian Tórshavn taken over by a fascist dictator.
Excerpt appears in: NCW Emerging Translator Anthology 2025