SWE>ENG translation of Swedish poet Athena Farrokhzad's August Prize-nominated début collection White Blight [Vitsvit], published by Argos Books in 2013. Published in the original by Albert Bonniers Förlag in 2013. I received a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for my work on White Blight, and the book was longlisted for the 2016 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association.
Jennifer Hayashida, "On Translating Athena Farrokhzad" (PEN America)
Selection from White Blight (PEN America)
Reviews:
Jonathan Farmer, "The Shadow of Whiteness" (Slate)
Kaveh Akbar, "A Fever That Escalates With Every Blow: Athena Farrokhzad's White Blight" (Kenyon Review)