OBS: THE READING WILL TAKE PLACE IN DANISH AND ENGLISH - THE INTERVIEW AFTERWARDS WILL TAKE PLACE IN DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
If you didn't join us at LiteraturHaus December 9th, don't worry. We recorded most of the evening and here it is! INCLUDING SUBTITLES!
We hosted this event in the spirit of ark books - to show the people of Copenhagen what they can expect of us when we open right across the street.
ark books refuses to be held back by the size of our language area -- ark books ventures out and brings home world literature in English translations. Works, that might never make it to our corner of the world otherwise. And the other way around, ark books sends the Danish literature out into the world. We track down all the outstanding Danish works, translated into English, and seek to promote and facilitate the reading of our own stories outside the country's borders.
To demonstrate our project, we have invited award-winning Danish author HELLE HELLE, equally award-winning translator MARTIN AITKEN, and the talented radio journalist KASPER LUNDBERG.
HELLE HELLE
published her first book 'Eksempler på liv' in 1993 and her latest publication is 'Dette burde skrives i nutid'. She has received a large number of awards and grants and graduated from Forfatterskolen in 1991. Helle Helle is famous for her controlled and minimalistic voice and detached characters. 'Dette burde skrives i nutid' is her first novel to be translated into English, although her works so far have been translated into twelve different languages.
MARTIN AITKEN
holds a ph.d. in Linguistics and has translated literary works full-time since 2008. Apart from Helle Helle's 'Dette burde skrives i nutid', forthcoming from Harvill Secker in 2014, he has translated works by, among others, Jørgen Leth, Pia Juul, Per Højholt and is underway with another translation of Kim Leine. Martin Aitken will read from the yet unpublished 'This should be written in the present tense', and thereby give us a taste of Danish literature out in the world.
KASPER LUNDBERG
works as a radio host at Radio27syv and is educated in literature and journalism. He has produced popular shows such as Iben og Mødregruppen, written for the film magazine Ekko and now writes for Atlas Magasin while hosting Radio27syv's Efter Otte. On this evening Kasper Lundberg will interview Helle Helle and Martin Aitken about the two books, translation in general and everything else under the sun.