Translations and reviews
Reviews of new Swedish literature can be found on swedishbookreview.org. The latest is of ''Slush' (Slask) by Mikael Berglund (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2024). 

Historical novel 'In the Footsteps of Anna' (I spåren efter Anna) by Jan Jägerfjord (Ekström och Garay 2024)

Translated extract from 'Hang City' by Mikael Yvesand for Swedish Book Review 2024:1

Translated extract from 'Inte din baby' (Not Your Baby) by Seluah Alsaati for Swedish Book Review 2023:1

Translated extract from 'The Young Ones We Kill' by Eija Hetekivi Olsson for Swedish Book Review 2021:2

Article on 'Diversity and the power balance of language'  for SELTA, 12.11.19


Fiction, prose, poetry etc.
'Terms and Conditions' short story in Prosetrics Magazine, May 2025

"You’re good to go was exactly the wording in the letter. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I later realised it had been a while since receiving anything official, anything in its friendly, administrative language. So long in fact, that it almost felt like I’d never received anything at all, and yet the words were so distinctive, and I’d certainly been waiting to hear this confirmation, I’m sure of it."

'Poems for Mountains' in the 2 Meter Review Winter Edition 2021

Ishigaki

"We're all inside now, the whole island, apart from whoever was driving the van which just drove past, faster than usual. There is comfort in knowing that the whole island will at present be experiencing the same stoppage to activity."

Gaia

"From a respectable distance of about five metres away, he waits for the information. Hence why the sun shines still bright across me. I beam inwardly."

Sapporo

"Yet it seems impossible to avoid reading walls into the air. There must be walls: I seem intent on creating walls, borders, something to denote a change or passage. Otherwise why is there a gate?"

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