Martin Aitken

Martin Aitken is a full-time translator of Scandinavian literature. His translation of Josefine Klougart’s One of Us Is Sleeping is published by Open Letter. He is currently translating the sixth book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle from Norwegian with Don Bartlett.

September 2018

My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard

By Karl Ove Knausgaard

New York. Archipelago. 2018. 1,164 pages. Karl Ove Knausgaard has been crowned “the ideal writer of the present moment.” His six-part novel, My Struggle, sold half a million copies in Norway,...
May 2017

Of Darkness by Josefine Klougart

By Josefine Klougart

Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2017. 312 pages. It is difficult to find the right genre to capture Klougart’s sixth publication, Of Darkness (WLT, Jan. 2017, 53–55). Perhaps people have...
January 2017

Of Darkness (two excerpts)

By Josefine Klougart

Photo: Michael Pereckas Of Darkness is a book about love and death. These seem to me to be the only things worth writing about. When you write about love and death, the beauty in this world’s fa...
November 2016

One of Us Is Sleeping by Josefine Klougart

By Josefine Klougart

Rochester, NY. Open Letter. 2016. 260 pages. If one of us is sleeping, is the other one awake? Might Danish author Josefine Klougart’s English-language debut be a luminous waking dream? The cryptic...
January 2016

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine

By Kim Leine

New York. Liveright (W.W. Norton, distr.). 2015. 562 pages. Kim Leine struck literary gold with his fourth novel, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord. It is a big book and a great one too: disturb...