In Translation: Victoria Kielland, Damion Searls, and Merve Emre on My Men

In Conversation

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  Victoria Kielland

  Victoria Kielland

  Victoria Kielland’s first book, the 2013 short prose collection I Lyngen (In the Heather), was shortlisted for the Tarjei Vesaas debutant prize. In 2016, Kielland’s first novel Dammyr (Marsh Pond) was shortlisted for the Youth Critics’ Prize and the literary committee of the Norwegian Authors’ Union awarded her the Norwegian Booksellers’ primary writer’s scholarship. My Men is her breakthrough novel, published to rave reviews in Norway in 2021.

  Photo Credit: Julie Naglestad

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  Damion Searls

  Damion Searls

  Damion Searls has translated more than fifty books of classic modern literature, most recently Thomas Mann’s New Selected Stories and Jon Fosse’s Septology and Bambi. His own writing includes fiction, poetry, criticism, The Inkblots (a history of the Rorschach Test and biography of its creator, Hermann Rorschach), and The Philosophy of Translation, forthcoming.

  Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan

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  Merve Emre

  Merve Emre

  Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Personality Brokers (selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, and the Spectator), The Ferrante Letters (winner of the 2021 PROSE award for literature), and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at the New Yorker.