Kira Josefsson

May 16, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Sora Kim-Russell |Youngjae Josephine Bae |Kira Josefsson |Annie McDermott

Marianna Datsenko, librarian at Lewisham Library, South East LondonTell us about your experience of being a Reading Challenge Ambassador. What did you enjoy most about the challenge, and how many books did you manage to read? Being a Reading Challenge Ambassador for the International Booker Prize has been an amazingly rewarding and exciting experience.

Apr 9, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Selva Almada |Annie McDermott |Ia Genberg |Kira Josefsson

The six books on the shortlist have been chosen by the 2024 judging panel: broadcaster and journalist Eleanor Wachtel, as chair; award-winning poet Natalie Diaz; internationally acclaimed novelist Romesh Gunesekera;  groundbreaking visual artist William Kentridge; and writer, editor and translator Aaron Robertson.

Jan 24, 2024 | asymptotejournal.com | Hanna Johansson |Kira Josefsson

Antiquity by Hanna Johansson, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson, Catapult, 2024“Where were they?” asks the nameless protagonist of Antiquity, Hanna Johansson’s gorgeous, lacerating debut novel, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson. She is interrogating the lack of cemeteries in Ermoupoli, a luxurious Greek city where she spends her summer with Helena, a chic and volatile artist with whom the narrator is infatuated, and Helena’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Olga.

Aug 8, 2023 | thebookerprizes.com | Ia Genberg |Kira Josefsson

Watch Dua Lipa read an extract from The Details What the International Booker Prize 2024 judges said‘Ia Genberg writes with a remarkably sharp eye about a series of messy relationships between friends, family and lovers. Using, as she says, “details, rather than information”, she gives us not simply the “residue of life presented in a combination of letters” but an evocation of contemporary Stockholm and a moving portrait of her narrator.

Aug 5, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Catherine Lacey |Ia Genberg |Kira Josefsson

FictionIn Ia Genberg’s “The Details,” the unnamed narrator spends the duration of an illness reflecting on her bygone relationships. Aug. 5, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETTHE DETAILS, by Ia Genberg. Translated by Kira Josefsson.