Martin Aitken
Martin Aitken is a translator of Scandinavian literature, whose translations include work by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Olga Ravn, Hanne Ørstavik and Kim Leine. He was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award in 2017, was a finalist at the US National Book Awards in 2018 and received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019. He lives in Denmark.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Kjersti A. Skomsvold on writing The Child, a book on motherhood and grief.
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Child
Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken, an excerpt from The Child by Kjersti A. Skomsvold.