Jennifer Russell
Jennifer Russell lives in Copenhagen, where she translates alongside Sophia Hersi Smith. Together, they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Tove Ditlevsen, Marianne Larsen, and Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild. She was the recipient of the 2019 Gulf Coast Prize for her translation of Ursula Scavenius’s ‘Birdland’, and in 2020 she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
My Work
Olga Ravn
‘When they placed the child on Anna’s breast after the birth, she felt nothing.’
Fiction by Olga Ravn, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Compartment
Ursula Scavenius
‘All I ask is that we arrive.’
A short story translated by Jennifer Russell.
