Norway 200 Literature: Lars Mytting, Edy Poppy, and Damion Searls

Lars Mytting (b.1968) made his debut with the novel Horsepower (Hestekrefter) in 2006. Norwegian Wood (Hel ved, 2011) became an international bestseller and won the British Book Industry Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 2016. In 2014, he received the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize for the novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Svøm med dem som drukner), which has been published in 17 languages and appeared on The Times' bestseller list. In 2018, The Bell in the Lake (Søsterklokkene), the first book in the Sister Bells trilogy, was published. It was followed by The Reindeer Hunters (Hekneveven) in 2020, and in 2023, The Night of the Scourge (Skråpånatta), the final installment, was published. Mytting's books have sold over one million copies worldwide and have been published in 23 languages. In 2022, he was awarded the Dobloug Prize.

Edy Poppy (b. 1975), grew up on a farm in Bø, Telemark, Norway. She moved to Montpellier when she was 17, and spent several years in France before moving to London where she worked with art, fashion, film and writing. She is the author of the novel Anatomy. Monotony., which has been translated into Italian, Finnish, German, Polish and English, as well as the short story collection Coming. Apart. and most recently the novel Iggy. Poppy has lived in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Lipari, Reykjavik, and Rio, and now calls Oslo home.

Damion Searls translates the fiction of Jon Fosse, as well as Victoria Kielland and, from other languages, fellow Nobel Prize winners Thomas Mann, Elfriede Jelinek, Hesse, Gide, and Modiano and other classic modern writers: Proust, Rilke, Nietzsche, Bachmann, Döblin, Walser, Christa Wolf, and Nescio. He has received Guggenheim, Cullman Center, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, published criticism and essays in Harper’s, Bookforum, The New Republic, Time, n+1, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and taught at Princeton, Harvard, Wesleyan, the Iowa Writers Program, and Bread Loaf. His own books include fiction (Analog Days), poetry (The Mariner's Mirror), biography (a history of the Rorschach Test and biography of its creator, Hermann Rorschach, which has been translated into ten languages), and The Philosophy of Translation.

Anderson Tepper is curator of world literature at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, where he hosts a monthly international author series. He is also a guest curator of PEN America’s World Voices Festival and has been a longstanding member of the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Literary Council and co-chair of its international committee. Formerly of Vanity Fair, his writing on books and authors has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and World Literature Today, among other publications. He is on the advisory boards of City of Asylum, Transit Books, and Sangam House, a writers residency in Bangalore, India.

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