Saskia Vogel Explained

Saskia Vogel
Birth Name:Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel
Birth Date:17 September 1981
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality:American, Swedish
Occupation:Author, translator

Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel (born September 17, 1981) is an American author and translator.[1] [2] Permission, her debut novel, was published in English,[3] [4] Spanish,[5] Italian,[6] and Swedish [7] in 2019 and has been optioned for television. She has translated leading Swedish authors such as Karolina Ramqvist, Katrine Marcal, Johannes Anyuru and Rut Hillarp. Vogel has written on the themes of gender, power and sexuality, and her translations and writing have appeared in publications such as Granta,[8] Guernica, The White Review, The Offing,[9] Paris Review Daily,[10] and The Quietus.[11] She received an honorable mention from the Pushchart Prize in 2017 for her "Sluts", first published by The Offing.[12] Her translation of Lina Wolff's The Polyglot Lovers (published by And Other Stories, 2019) won the English PEN Translates Award.[13] In 2018, her translation of Karolina Ramqvist's The White City was shortlisted for the Petrona Award.[14]

She has lived in Sweden, the UK and the US and currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

Translated works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Permission by Saskia Vogel – quietly subversive debut. Arifa. Akbar. March 17, 2019. www.theguardian.com.
  2. News: Permission review: Compelling take on sex and power in LA. Sarah. Gilmartin. The Irish Times.
  3. Book: Permission.
  4. Web site: Permission by Saskia Vogel – quietly subversive debut. TheGuardian.com. 17 March 2019.
  5. Web site: Soy una pornógrafa.
  6. Web site: "Consenso" - Saskia Vogel.
  7. News: Befriande rakt om erotik som tröst. Svenska Dagbladet. 10 July 2019. Aschenbrenner. Jenny.
  8. Web site: A Woman Screaming. 30 July 2019.
  9. Web site: Sluts. 23 May 2016.
  10. Web site: The Swedish Gangster's Wife's Bag. 15 March 2017.
  11. Web site: The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Tug of Yore: Things Learned at Helsinki's Viva Erotica Festival.
  12. Web site: Sluts. 23 May 2016.
  13. Web site: PEN Translates awards go to books from 15 countries | the Bookseller.
  14. Web site: The Petrona Award 2018 - the Shortlist.
  15. News: 'Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?' by Katrine Marçal. The New York Times. 10 June 2016. Lowrey. Annie.
  16. Web site: Nonfiction Book Review: All Monsters Must die: An Excursion to North Korea by Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman, trans. From Swedish by Saskia Vogel. House of Anansi (PGW/Perseus, U.S. Dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $22.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-77089-880-6. January 2016 .
  17. Book: Molander, Per. The anatomy of inequality : its social and economic origins--and solutions. 2016. 978-1-61219-569-8. Brooklyn. 950750915.
  18. Web site: Fiction Book Review: The White City by Karolina Ramqvist, trans. From the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.. Black Cat, $16 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2595-8. February 2017 .
  19. Web site: Mixed feelings - Fiction.
  20. Web site: Review of They Will Drown in their Mothers' Tears.
  21. Web site: The Polyglot Lovers.
  22. Web site: AND IN THE VIENNA WOODS THE TREES REMAIN | Kirkus Reviews.
  23. Web site: Many People die Like You.
  24. How Greta Thunberg Transformed Existential Dread into a Movement. The New Yorker. 6 April 2020.
  25. Web site: Deep Vellum Publishing .
  26. https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-03/iwd-2023-10-new-books-written-and-translated-by-women-wwb/