Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel (born September 17, 1981) is an American author and translator.[1][2] Permission, her debut novel, was published in English,[3][4] Spanish,[5] Italian,[6] and Swedish[7] in 2019 and has been optioned for television. She has translated leading Swedish authors such as Karolina Ramqvist, Katrine Marcal, Johannes Anyuru and Rut Hillarp. Vogel has written on the themes of gender, power and sexuality, and her translations and writing have appeared in publications such as Granta,[8] Guernica, The White Review, The Offing,[9] Paris Review Daily,[10] and The Quietus.[11] She received an honorable mention from the Pushchart Prize in 2017 for her "Sluts", first published by The Offing.[12] Her translation of Lina Wolff's The Polyglot Lovers (published by And Other Stories, 2019) won the English PEN Translates Award.[13] In 2018, her translation of Karolina Ramqvist's The White City was shortlisted for the Petrona Award.[14]
Saskia Vogel | |
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| Born | Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel September 17, 1981 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American, Swedish |
| Occupation(s) | Author, translator |
She has lived in Sweden, the UK and the US and currently resides in Berlin, Germany.
Translated works
edit- The summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser. 2015.
- Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marçal. 2015.[15]
- All Monsters Must Die: An Excursion to North Korea by Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman. 2015.[16]
- The Anatomy of Inequality by Per Molander. 2016.[17]
- The White City by Karolina Ramqvist. 2017.[18]
- Acts of Infidelity by Lena Andersson. 2018.[19]
- They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears by Johannes Anyuru. 2019.[20]
- The Polyglot Lovers by Lina Wolff. 2019.[21]
- And In the Vienna Woods The Trees Remain by Elisabeth Åsbrink. 2020.[22]
- Many People Die Like You by Lina Wolff. 2020.[23]
- (co-translated with Paul Norlen) Our House Is on Fire by Greta Thunberg, Malena Ernman et al. 2020.[24]
- Girls Lost by Jessica Schiefauer. 2020.[25]
- October Child by Linda Boström Knausgård. 2021.
- The Bear Woman by Karolina Ramqvist. 2022.
- Days and Days and Days by Tone Schunnesson. 2023.[26]
References
edit- ^ Akbar, Arifa (March 17, 2019). "Permission by Saskia Vogel – quietly subversive debut". www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Gilmartin, Sarah. "Permission review: Compelling take on sex and power in LA". The Irish Times.
- ^ Permission.
- ^ "Permission by Saskia Vogel – quietly subversive debut". TheGuardian.com. 17 March 2019.
- ^ "Soy una pornógrafa".
- ^ ""Consenso" - Saskia Vogel".
- ^ Aschenbrenner, Jenny (10 July 2019). "Befriande rakt om erotik som tröst". Svenska Dagbladet.
- ^ "A Woman Screaming". 30 July 2019.
- ^ "Sluts". 23 May 2016.
- ^ "The Swedish Gangster's Wife's Bag". 15 March 2017.
- ^ "The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Tug of Yore: Things Learned at Helsinki's Viva Erotica Festival". 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Sluts". 23 May 2016.
- ^ "PEN Translates awards go to books from 15 countries | the Bookseller".
- ^ "The Petrona Award 2018 - the Shortlist".
- ^ Lowrey, Annie (10 June 2016). "'Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?' by Katrine Marçal". The New York Times.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: All Monsters Must die: An Excursion to North Korea by Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman, trans. From Swedish by Saskia Vogel. House of Anansi (PGW/Perseus, U.S. Dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $22.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-77089-880-6". January 2016.
- ^ Molander, Per (2016). The anatomy of inequality : its social and economic origins--and solutions. Brooklyn. ISBN 978-1-61219-569-8. OCLC 950750915.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Fiction Book Review: The White City by Karolina Ramqvist, trans. From the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.. Black Cat, $16 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2595-8". February 2017.
- ^ "Mixed feelings - Fiction".
- ^ "Review of They Will Drown in their Mothers' Tears". 27 October 2019.
- ^ "The Polyglot Lovers".
- ^ "AND IN THE VIENNA WOODS THE TREES REMAIN | Kirkus Reviews".
- ^ "Many People die Like You".
- ^ "How Greta Thunberg Transformed Existential Dread into a Movement". The New Yorker. 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Deep Vellum Publishing".
- ^ "Your #IWD2023 Reading List". 8 March 2023.
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