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[H6] Essays & Memoir|Issue 175

[H1] A Strange Bird’s Cry

[H3] Karl Ove Knausgård

‘You are born into a family that has run the same farm since the 1600s, and as the eldest son it is not only expected that you will take over from your father, it is a given. How strong must the urge to write be to overcome that?’
Karl Ove Knausgård on Tarjei Vesass.

[H6] Essays & Memoir|Issue 175

[H1] Excerpts From the Five Volumes of Diary of a Playwright

[H3] Lars Norén
Translated by Sigrid Rausing
‘I am tired of the false seduction music brings. I want to trust the words, the music of the words and the inner music of the actors.’
Lars Norén on writing, theatre and intimacy.

[H6] Fiction|Issue 175

[H1] The Forest Kindergartners

[H3] Jonas Eika
Translated by Sherilyn Hellberg
‘it was as good a word as any for this very wonderful and lively but still not-yet- fully-human being that was sleepily smacking its lips on their chest’
Fiction by Jonas Eika, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg.

[H6] Fiction|Issue 175

[H1] Six Stories

[H3] Helle Helle
Translated by Martin Aitken
‘The boy threw himself to the ground, his parents called for him to come. He didn’t move. They began to walk away, without looking back.’
Six short stories by Helle Helle.

[H6] Essays & Memoir|Issue 175

[H1] June

[H3] Eeva Kilpi
Translated by Mia Spangenberg
‘The first hint of a normal state of mind since Saturday.’
Excerpts from the diaries of Eeva Kilpi, translated by Mia Spangeberg.

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A Strange Bird’s Cry

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Karl Ove Knausgård
‘You are born into a family that has run the same farm since the 1600s, and as the eldest son it is not only expected that you will take over from your father, it is a given. How strong must the urge to write be to overcome that?’ Karl Ove Knausgård on Tarjei Vesaas.

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[H2]
The Good Person of Sandvika

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Vigdis Hjorth
‘I was very productive at the pub, working to the hum of other people’s voices.’ Fiction by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund.

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Fiction
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Issue 175

[H2]
The Aviary

[H4]
Solvej Balle
‘We had discovered Joanna that morning when we went out into the garden. She was lying in her sleeping bag on the grass.’Fiction by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.

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Fiction
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Issue 175

[H2]
The High Priestess

[H4]
Olga Ravn
‘As a child, to the puzzlement of those around me, I developed an interest in tarot cards.’A new story by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken.

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Fiction
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Issue 175

[H2]
Vaim Hotel

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Jon Fosse
‘I was standing outside The Vaim General Store with this fishing set in my hand, and I thought why in the world had I bought myself a fishing rod’Fiction by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.

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Essays & Memoir
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Issue 174

[H2]
Running Behind

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Stephanie Wambugu
‘I missed a good portion of the outing and hoped the insult would come across.’ Stephanie Wambugu on chronic lateness.

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Essays & Memoir
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Issue 174

[H2]
Picture Me Crying

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Rachel Connolly
‘Almost nobody has ever seen me cry. This has been true my entire life.’Rachel Connolly on accessing vulnerability.

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Essays & Memoir
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Issue 174

[H2]
Things on Places

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Jeremy Atherton Lin
‘The festoonery interrupts the usual, how things are meant to be.’ Jeremy Atherton Lin on resenting Christmas.

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Essays & Memoir
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Principal Witness

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Izabella Scott
‘The summons made clear that if I failed to turn up (which I had), a warrant could be issued for my arrest.’ Izabella Scott on court testimonies.

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Essays & Memoir
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Issue 174

[H2]
The Pile

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Naoise Dolan
‘I have better things to do.’ Naoise Dolan on refusing to unpack.

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Essays & Memoir
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Issue 174

[H2]
Free Botox

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Amber Husain
‘I sensed, if you can believe it, that I was being fobbed off.’ Amber Husain on refusing free Botox.

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Head Above Water

[H4]
Buchi Emecheta
‘Inside, I knew it was more complicated: I knew I was both – a “bush” girl and a civilized Christian.’ Buchi Emecheta on her childhood in Lagos.

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[H2]
The Black Sheep

[H4]
Italo Calvino
‘And then one day – nobody knows how – an honest man appeared.’ Fiction by Italo Calvino

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Essays & Memoir
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Issue 71

[H2]
Shrinks

[H4]
Edmund White
‘Self-doubt, which is a cousin to self-hatred, became my constant companion.’ Edmund White on psychology, spirituality and submission.

[H1] The Vegetarian

[H3] Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye’s decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism.
Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

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Issue 175

[H1]
Podcast | Olga Ravn

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Olga Ravn

'Intelligence and consciousness are two very different things.' Olga Ravn on technology, its relationship with humanity, and Tove Ditlevsen's influence.

Issue 175

[H1]
Independent People?

[H2]
Thomas Meaney

‘What sets Scandinavian literature apart from the rest of European literature? Why, at its best, does its fiction seem to pack in more force, pound for pound?’The editor introduces the issue.

Issue 175

[H1]
The High Priestess

[H2]
Olga Ravn

‘As a child, to the puzzlement of those around me, I developed an interest in tarot cards.’A new story by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken.

Issue 175

[H1]
Six Stories

[H2]
Helle Helle

‘The boy threw himself to the ground, his parents called for him to come. He didn’t move. They began to walk away, without looking back.’Six short stories by Helle Helle, translated by Martin Aitken.

Issue 175

[H1]
Untitled

[H2]
Asta Olivia Nordenhof

‘I’m losing patience / with the concept / of money’Poetry by Asta Olivia Nordenhof, translated by Caroline Waight.

Issue 175

[H1]
Gertrud

[H2]
Maja Daniels

‘More than three hundred people – mostly women – were executed.’ Maja Daniels photographs the town where Sweden’s witch trials took place.

Issue 175

[H1]
Lars Norén and the Power of Words

[H2]
Sigrid Rausing

‘There’s space for everything in Norén’s writing, from the trivial to the profound. He records it all, typing and smoking compulsively in bare rooms.’Sigrid Rausing on Lars Norén.

Issue 175

[H1]
Excerpts From the Five Volumes of Diary of a Playwright

[H2]
Lars Norén

‘I am tired of the false seduction music brings. I want to trust the words, the music of the words and the inner music of the actors.’Lars Norén on writing, theatre and intimacy.

Issue 175

[H1]
Ioseb

[H2]
Pirkko Saisio

‘Ioseb holds his breath. He can hear his own heartbeat, tolling in his ears like the bells of Judgement Day, with a force that shakes his whole body.’Fiction by Pirkko Saisio, translated by Aleksi Koponen.

Issue 175

[H1]
Vaim Hotel

[H2]
Jon Fosse

‘I was standing outside The Vaim General Store with this fishing set in my hand, and I thought why in the world had I bought myself a fishing rod’Fiction by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.

Issue 175

[H1]
School Run

[H2]
Stephen Gill

‘In the winter months they leave in darkness and return in darkness.’ Stephen Gill takes photographs on his children’s school run.

Issue 175

[H1]
The Aviary

[H2]
Solvej Balle

‘We had discovered Joanna that morning when we went out into the garden. She was lying in her sleeping bag on the grass.’Fiction by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.

Issue 175

[H1]
Backwoods Fable

[H2]
Sigbjørn Skåden

‘Huuva ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes.’Fiction by Sigbjørn Skåden, translated by Olivia Lasky.

Issue 175

[H1]
Blow Up the Factory

[H2]
Malte Tellerup

‘Mikkelsen owns land, and he buys more. Evil tongues call him Hogfather Mikkelsen – though well-meaning tongues call him that too.’Fiction by Malte Tellerup, translated by Denise Rose Hansen.

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Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

[H1] The Vegetarian

[H3] Han Kang

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
’Sensual, provocative and violent...an extraordinary experience’ - Guardian
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion. Yeong-hye’s passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies... Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.

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Notes on Craft: Does this Count?

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‘Is the act of complicating a perfectly nice daydream a craft?’ Ben Pester on the craft of imagination.

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Faith

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Sayaka Murata
‘Hey, Nagaoka, wanna start a new cult with me?’ New fiction by Sayaka Murata, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

[H6] Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

[H1] Listlessness

[H3] Christy Edwall

‘The listless mind is one which defers rather than tries to bring about closure. There is always one more tab to open.’ Christy Edwall on listlessness in twenty-first century fiction.

[H6] Fiction|Issue 162

[H1] Biography of X

[H3] Catherine Lacey

‘Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.’ An extract from Biography of X by Catherine Lacey.

[H6] Fiction|The Online Edition

[H1] I Won’t Let You Go

[H3] Hiromi Kawakami
Translated by Allison Markin Powell
‘I have no idea why I felt so drawn to the mermaid, but the pull was irresistible.’ Fiction by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell.

[H6] Essays & Memoir|Issue 161

[H1] Speaking Brother

[H3] Will Harris

‘I don’t have a brother; I’m an only child. But a few years ago I started writing poems in which a brother appears.’ Will Harris on Brother Poem

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‘The self is the work of art. Criticism puts that self in the service of other art.’ The authors discuss the multiplicity of the self, the idea of necessity, and how to work with what you lack.

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‘People may not want realism but it’s still our job to try and supply it in compelling and truthful ways.’ Tom Bullough and Ben Rawlence on writing into the climate crisis.

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The Intoxicated Years

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‘They cried as if they weren’t to blame for any of it. We hated innocent people.’

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‘As I lay on the mattress, the white toe pads of the gecko floated up before me, against the vastness of the blue-black night. Rather than a presence, it seemed to me more like a trace, a barely discernible odour that flooded in on the air.’

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I’m A Fan Wins a British Book Award

I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel wins the Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards.

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Birnam Wood Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton is a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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Heritage Aesthetics Wins the RSL Ondaatje Prize

Anthony Anaxagorou has won the RSL Ondaatje Prize for his collection Heritage Aesthetics. The prize is awarded to an outstanding work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that best evokes the spirit of a place.