David Hackston is a British translator of Finnish and Swedish literature and drama. He graduated from University College London in 1999 with a degree in Scandinavian Studies and now lives in Helsinki where he works as a freelance translator.
‘I wished my family would die, my friends too, everybody I knew, because only that way could they never follow me wherever I went.’
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