Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel (born September 17, 1981) is an American author and translator. ''Permission'', her debut novel, was published in English, Spanish, Italian, and Swedish in 2019 and has been optioned for television. She has translated leading Swedish authors such as

Karolina Ramqvist Annika "Karolina" Virtanen Ramqvist (born 8 November 1976) is a prominent Swedish journalist and best-selling author. Ramqvist's novels explore "contemporary issues of sexuality, commercialization, isolation and belonging". The Swedish newspaper ...

, Katrine Marcal, Johannes Anyuru and Rut Hillarp. Vogel has written on the themes of gender, power and sexuality, and her translations and writing have appeared in publications such as ''

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'', ''Guernica'', '' The White Review'', ''The Offing'', ''Paris Review Daily'', and ''

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''. She received an honorable mention from the Pushchart Prize in 2017 for her "Sluts", first published by ''The Offing''. Her translation of Lina Wolff's ''The Polyglot Lovers'' (published by And Other Stories, 2019) won the English PEN Translates Award. In 2018, her translation of Karolina Ramqvist's ''The White City'' was shortlisted for the Petrona Award. She has lived in Sweden, the UK and the US and currently resides in

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, Germany.

Translated works

* ''The summer of Kim Novak'' by

Håkan Nesser Håkan Nesser (born 21 February 1950) is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly but not only crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel ''Carambole'' won the p ...

. 2015. * ''Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?'' by

Katrine Marçal Katrine Linda Mathilda Kielos-Marçal (''née'' Kielos; born 24 October 1983) is a Swedish people, Swedish author, journalist and correspondent for Swedish daily newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter''. Biography Kielos-Marçal earlier served as chief edit ...

. 2015. * ''All Monsters Must Die: An Excursion to North Korea'' by Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman. 2015. * ''The Anatomy of Inequality'' by Per Molander. 2016. * ''The White City'' by

. 2017. * ''Acts of Infidelity'' by Lena Andersson. 2018. * ''

They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears ''They Will Drown in their Mothers' Tears'' ( sv, De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar) is a 2017 novel by Swedish author Johannes Anyuru. It won the 2017 August Prize for Fiction. An English translation by Saskia Vogel Saskia Maria De ...

'' by Johannes Anyuru. 2019. * ''The Polyglot Lovers'' by Lina Wolff. 2019. * ''And In the Vienna Woods The Trees Remain'' by

Elisabeth Åsbrink Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink (born 29 April 1965) is a Swedish author and journalist. Life Åsbrink made her debut with the book ''Smärtpunkten - Lars Norén, pjäsen Sju tre och morden i Malexander''. The book was nominated for the August priz ...

. 2020. * ''Many People Die Like You'' by Lina Wolff. 2020. * (co-translated with Paul Norlen) ''Our House Is on Fire'' by

Greta Thunberg Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Thunberg's activism began when she persuaded ...

Malena Ernman Sara Magdalena Ernman (born 4 November 1970) is a Swedish opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Ernman repr ...

et al. 2020. * ''Girls Lost'' by

Jessica Schiefauer Jessica may refer to: Given name * Jessica (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters with this name * Jessica Folcker, a Swedish singer known by the mononym Jessica * Jessica Jung, a Korean-American singer known by the m ...

. 2020. * ''October Child'' by

Linda Boström Knausgård Linda Boström Knausgård (born 15 October 1972 in Boo, Sweden) is a Swedish author and poet. She debuted in 1998 with the poetry collection ''Gör mig behaglig för såret''. Her critical breakthrough came in 2011 with the short-story collection ' ...

. 2021. * ''The Bear Woman'' by Karolina Ramqvist. 2022.

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