Literary Translator. Tor Ulven, Leander Djønne, Synne Sun Løes, Yahya Hassan, Svein Jarvoll, Steinar Løding, et alia Published translations in bio link \/
Philadelphia, PA
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Ecstatic to finally announce that my translation of Tor Ulven’s “Consumption: Prose Pieces” will be coming out on Wakefield Press early next year.
This is the beginning of my commitment to seeing his ten other books translated.
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We were thrilled to see David M. Smith’s (@smithigans_wake) translation of Thure Erik Lund’s THE MYSTERY OF WHAT BEFELL IN THE DITCH reviewed by Sukhdev Sandhu in the @guardian at the weekend.
‘A universal story of modernity and its discontents’
theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
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My ALTA49 haul. Thanks @Powells, @motherfoucaults, Word Virus and Annie Bloom’s Books—everyone check them out if you’re in Portland!
The size of my lil ALTA book haul is misproportioned to my huge heart after seeing all my lovely translators buddies.
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NEW SOME WORDS SCARY SHIT MONTH
A POEM BY @cloglover69 THAT YOU NEED TO READ RIGHT NOW
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Amen! "[A] universal story of modernity and its discontents ... prescient about the 'language forms' that digital capitalism requires – the data and information, the 'demonic and inhuman' scientism, the fear of allegory." theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
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A lugubrious novel about a brooding misanthrope, published 27 years ago, deemed untranslatable (David M. Smith said “hold my beer”), and written by an alleged Norwegian “madman”? Sure, pile it on. This is my kind of thing!
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Knausgård said it couldn't be translated. Somebody had to try, anyway! My translation of Thure Erik Lund’s sprawling, unholy mess of a novel is upon us. Thanks to Thure Erik Lund, NORLA, @andothertweets, @nordicnovellas and so many others for paving the way.
Gettin’ GIDDY about @LitTranslate ALTA 49 now that I’m flying to Portland. Cant wait to (re)convene with translation buddies new and old.
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David M. Smith's jaw-dropping translation of Thure Erik Lund's THE MYSTERY OF WHAT BEFELL IN THE DITCH publishes today across the UK, Europe and North America.
'Thure Erik Lund is Norway's greatest contemporary writer'
Karl Ove Knausgård
andotherstories.org/the-myst…
Woo! Honored to be this year’s @WritersCentre Emerging Translator for Norwegian. Beyond appreciative of everyone helping keeping this dream alive.
If you feel so inclined, you can spot me and the other translators in this intro video. I was reporting from my lovely Ulvik fjord
youtu.be/km9J7jpvN68?si=U1xO…
Something special about your Nana pointing at a house and saying “Man who used to live there got electrocuted.”
