Thom Satterlee

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Thom Satterlee has translated several works of Danish fiction and poetry, most recently If I Were a Suicide Bomber and Other Verses, by Per Aage Brandt (2018). His awards include two NEA Literature Fellowships (poetry and translation), the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize, and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. Photo by Sophie Stewart.

Burn
By Henriette Rostrup
March 2022
Henriette Rostrup
A girl executes her escape plan, with one unexpected twist at the end. She walks through the house. It’s quiet now; everyone’s sleeping. Behind the bedroom door she can hear her father’s dee…
If I Were a Suicide Bomber by Per Aage Brandt
By Per Aage Brandt

Per Aage Brandt
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2017. 260 pages. Thom Satterlee’s translation, with facing-page originals, of the eminent Danish poet Per Aage Brandt is a great opportunity for the anglophone poetry…