Description
This translation has received the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
About the Author
Laura Vogt (Teufen, 1989) studied Creative Writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and Cultural Studies at the University of Luzern. What Concerns Us is her second novel, which she started writing just two months after having her first child. In her work, Laura is particularly interested in exploring the complexity of relationships, maternity, as well as inquiring into the many forms that womanhood can take. Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, German and Norwegian. She translates both fiction and non-fiction, with recent publications including The Lobster's Shell by Caroline Albertine Minor (Granta, 2022), Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen (Pushkin Press, 2021) and The Chief Witness by Sayragul Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius (Scribe, 2021). She is based near London. About What Concerns Us, Caroline says: 'It is the characters in Laura Vogt's incisive novel that really appeal to me as a translator. The three women are perceptively and utterly unsentimentally drawn, each with their own type of language: finding a way to bring that alive in English has been an endlessly fascinating challenge'.
Reviews
'A beautiful examination of female interiority. Vogt is not afraid to ask difficult questions. In what ways does motherhood bring us to our limits? What are the consequences of believing a child doesn't need a father? ' Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books
Book Information
ISBN 9781739751517
Author Laura Vogt
Format Paperback
Imprint Heloise Press
Publisher Heloise Press