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Helle Helle (Author)
Helle Helle is arguably Denmark's foremost modern novelist and its most popular. She has been awarded many prizes, including the Danish Critics' Prize, the Danish Academy's Beatrice Prize, and the P.O. Enquist Award. She was recently given the Lifetime Award of the Danish Arts Council.
Her work has been translated into thirteen languages. This is her first novel to be translated into English.
Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish, including works by Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen and Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.
Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken has translated numerous novels from Norwegian and Danish. He has received the PEN America Translation Prize and the National Translation Award in Prose, and his work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Awards, and the Dublin Literary Award.
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