On December 16 at 6pm CST, join Hanne Ørstavik and Linda Gregerson for a virtual reading and conversation on Ørstavik’s novel The Pastor, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. This event is presented by our friends at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The event will stream live on Zoom. You can find the link to register here.

With the publication of The Pastor, “Ørstavik distinguishes herself as a leading light in international literature,” Publishers Weekly wrote.

Martin Aitken’s translation of Ørstavik’s novel Love, also published by Archipelago, was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translation. The jury wrote, “In Hanne Ørstavik’s Love, the equilibrium between a tense, disquieting plot and a gently experimental binary structure sustain the reader’s attention and awe from beginning to end. The aerial beauty of Martin Aitken’s translation contributes to make the novel a successful rarity: a book that is at the same time a thriller and a dense literary object. ‘Perfect’ may be the proper adjective to describe it.”

Hanne Ørstavik, one of the most admired and prominent writers in contemporary Norwegian fiction, published her first novel Cut in 1994. Ørstavik has written a number of acclaimed novels that have been translated into more than 16 languages. She has been awarded a host of literary prizes, including the Dobloug Prize, presented annually for Swedish and Norwegian fiction by the Swedish Academy. The English translation of Love was a finalist for a National Book Award. Ørstavik’s novel Te Amo is forthcoming with Archipelago Books.

Linda Gregerson is the author of six previous collections of poetry, most recently of Prodigal: New and Selected Poems. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

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