To witness. To contain. To hunt.

People in Smaland are being provoked into action by a destructive species. It moves in packs at night. Gardens are being destroyed, farmland churned up. Yet its illusiveness draws in both visitors and inhabitants.

The forests of this stony province are home to a growing population of wild boar once on the verge of extinction. Told by three people newly arrived in an isolated community, Wild Boar is a compelling and poetic debut from Finnish/Swedish author Hannah Lutz about animals and people, their places in a changing ecosystem, and their capacities to grow and to destroy.

Winner Best Debut Novel Award, Society of Swedish Authors 2018, Finland

About the Author
Hannah Lutz was born in 1984 and grew up in Ekenas, in southern Finland. She has an MA from Finland's Abo Akademi University. She later moved to Denmark and attended the Writing School in Copenhagen. Still based in Denmark, she lives just outside Roskilde. Her short story 'Den elfte versionen' / 'The Eleventh Version' won the Umea Short Story Award, Sweden, in 2011. Vildsvin / Wild Boar is Lutz's debut novel. Written in Swedish, it was first published as the Danish translation in 2016 by Rosinante in Denmark; the original Swedish text was first published in 2017 by Foerlaget in Finland and Albert Bonniers Foerlag in Sweden. Her second novel, Selma, was published by Foerlaget in Finland in 2023. Andy Turner is a writer, reviewer, translator, and former school teacher and examiner. He works with both Swedish and German and is a member of SELTA and the Translators Association of the Society of Authors. He graduated with an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia in 2017. He was Swedish mentee in the 2018-19 National Centre for Writing's Emerging Literary Translator Mentorships Programme, working alongside Sarah Death. His translation of 'Wild Boar' by Hannah Lutz is his first full-length adult translation publication.

Awards
Winner of Best Debut Novel Award, Society of Swedish Authors 2018 (Finland).



Book Information
ISBN 9781915628381
Author Hannah Lutz
Format Paperback
Page Count 102
Imprint The Emma Press
Publisher The Emma Press
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm