"A Postcard for Annie" with Ida Jessen, Martin Aitken & Désirée Ohrbeck —Nordic Lit In Translation

See a Nordic Literature in Translation Book Talk with acclaimed Danish author Ida Jessen and translator Martin Aitken on the new book "A Postcard for Annie"! In this program from Scandinavia House Online on July 13, 2022 with moderator Désirée Ohrbeck, they discussed the writing and translation of the prizewinning anthology hailed as an “insightful, original collection” (Kirkus Reviews) following the inner lives of several women on the brink, or sidelines, of catastrophe. From the winner of the Lifetime Award from the Danish Arts Foundation and the 2017 Critics’ Choice Award, Ida Jessen’s "A Postcard for Annie" traces the tangled emotional lives of women facing moral dilemmas. A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences; a mother sits with her unconscious son in a hospital room; a pair of sisters remember their mother’s hands braiding their hair. In seaside tourist villages and in snowy cities, turbulence destabilizes composed lives, whether through outright violence between strangers or habitual domination between loved ones. Writing with the same narrative generosity, Jessen fills each story with bracing passages that splash with the living world, only to become concentrated in the unfixed, vacillating matter of a human psyche caught between silence and speech, paralysis and action. "A Postcard for Annie" will be available beginning June 28 from Archipelago. Purchase it here: archipelagobooks.org/book/a-postcard-for-annie/ Learn more about programming at Scandinavia House at scandinaviahouse.org #literature #denmark #translation