The Employees

Olga Ravn (Author)
Olga Ravn is one of Denmark''s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel
Jennifer Russell (Translator)
Jennifer Russell is a translator living in Copenhagen. Together with Sophia Hersi Smith, she has translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen and Solvej Balle.

Sophia Hersi Smith (Translator)
Sophia Hersi Smith is a translator living in Copenhagen. Together with Jennifer Russell, she has translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen and Solvej Balle.

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About the author

Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021, the Ursula K.Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. Her novel My Work won the Politikens Literature Prize in 2021 and led to changes in the country’s maternity rights. She has also written shorter pieces for the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Granta.Martin Aitken has translated the works of many Scandinavian writers, among them Karl Ove Knausgaard, Helle Helle, Hanne Ørstavik and Olga Ravn. He lives in Denmark.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Ravn
• Assisted by: Aitken Martin (Translation), Russell Jennifer (Translation), Sophia Hersi Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9781405976787
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-7678-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION / Absurdist, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, FICTION / World Literature / Denmark, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary