Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel
Vogel at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading
Born
Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel

(1981-09-17) September 17, 1981 (age 43)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican, Swedish
Occupation(s)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.

  1. ^ Akbar, Arifa (March 17, 2019). "Permission by Saskia Vogel – quietly subversive debut". www.theguardian.com.
  2. ^ Gilmartin, Sarah. "Permission review: Compelling take on sex and power in LA". The Irish Times.
  3. ^ Permission.
  4. ^ "Permission by Saskia Vogel – quietly subversive debut". TheGuardian.com. 17 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Soy una pornógrafa".
  6. ^ ""Consenso" - Saskia Vogel".
  7. ^ Aschenbrenner, Jenny (10 July 2019). "Befriande rakt om erotik som tröst". Svenska Dagbladet.
  8. ^ "A Woman Screaming". 30 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Sluts". 23 May 2016.
  10. ^ "The Swedish Gangster's Wife's Bag". 15 March 2017.
  11. ^ "The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Tug of Yore: Things Learned at Helsinki's Viva Erotica Festival". 29 May 2015.
  12. ^ "Sluts". 23 May 2016.
  13. ^ "PEN Translates awards go to books from 15 countries | the Bookseller".
  14. ^ "The Petrona Award 2018 - the Shortlist".