Linnea Axelsson

Oct 1, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jason de Léon |Deborah Taffa |Linnea Axelsson |Sophia Stewart

The National Book Foundation has announced the 2024 National Book Award shortlists. The winners in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be announced during an awards ceremony on November 20.

Mar 19, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Linnea Axelsson

This epic novel in verse is set in the Northern Sami lands of Scandinavia above the Arctic Circle. Angela Dawe employs deliberate pacing and pauses, along with a dreamy tone. Her delivery style results in a faithful translation of the poetic blank spaces throughout the original text, which suggest the quietness of the landscape and the erasing of the Sami reindeer herders' culture.

Feb 20, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Linnea Axelsson |Balsam Karam |Simone Atangana Bekono |Hanna Johansson

Skip to content Reading Lists Books from across the world to add to your TBR Translated literature is no longer the forgotten, othered cousin of the Anglo-American literary scene. At Electric Literature, we have long been enamored by international frontiers, the global writers who write in their native (or acquired) tongues, and the translators who coax each word into English. This year’s crop of forthcoming translations is bountiful. To cease endless (and pleasurable) reading and...

Feb 16, 2024 | lithub.com | Linnea Axelsson

For the past decades, the two communities of which I am a part—Sámi, from the part of Sápmi that falls within Sweden’s borders, and the Swedish majority society—have been developing in different directions. The former is making an effort to take a close look at history in order to slowly move towards greater openness. However, large parts of the latter seem to be rewriting history as a pure fantasy of Swedishness. In doing so the Swedish majority society is closing itself off to the outside world.

Feb 16, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Linnea Axelsson |Saskia Vogel |Robin Oliveira |Laird Hunt

Aednan: An EpicShare with friends:Permanent Link:Swedish author Linnea Axelsson and translator Saskia Vogel present an exquisite prose poem or work of poetic fiction in Aednan, the title a Northern Sámi word meaning an amalgam of earth, mother, and land. It's the tale of Ristin and her husband, who experience the tragic loss of their son while migrating with their reindeer across the boundaries created between Norway, Sweden, and Finland.