Kira Josefsson
@kirajosefsson.bsky.social
translator of Ia Genberg, Hanna Johansson, Judith Kiros and others // writing about the US for Aftonbladet &c // that's Karin Broos in the header
Excited to talk shop with my union comrades in Sept 📝🗳️❤️🔥
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)@catranslation.org · 6d agoOur third panel for Day of Translation 2026 is A RADICAL PROPOSAL: Literary Translators as Workers with Soleil Davíd (@soleildahveed.bsky.social), Kira Josefsson (@kirajosefsson.bsky.social), Frances Riddle, and Jeremy Tiang (@jeremytiang.bsky.social). 🔖 +
När miljardärer kan tvinga organisationer till tystnad och offentliga ursäkter är yttrandefriheten hotad.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
Frågar idag, med resten av USA, om arbetarklassen måste vara en man i bygghjälm och svällande muskler: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/K8b...
Hör en högavlönad läkare till arbetarklassen?
Hör en högavlönad läkare till arbetarklassen?
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Borde vi inte älska att betala skatt? Om de nya tunnelbaneskärmarna, fossiler, och hur underbart New York är just nu: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Okz...
Ilskan över skärmarna i tunnelbanan förenar oss
KIRA JOSEFSSON Borde vi inte älska att betala skatt?
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Burcu Sahin: "om Sverige nu ska börja väga människors rätt efter vandel vore det kanske på tiden att också fråga vem som egentligen tagit mest från det här landet" www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/M7d...
Pladdret om invandring distraherar från de rika
BURCU SAHIN om bristande vandel
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Skrivit för @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social om Andrew Tates eventuella bögighet www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/k0K...
Andrew Tate är inte bögarnas fel
TOMAS HEMSTAD Klädhånet friskriver straighta män
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Skriver i Aftonbladet idag, 15 år efter den högerextrema terrorn på Utøya. Om det som drev fram den och var Sverige är nu. Läs gärna! www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/vrx...
Utøya borde ha lärt oss att välja bort rasismen
Utøya borde ha lärt oss att välja bort rasismen
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Igår kom även det här uttalandet från Vita Huset, som understryker utvecklingen jag beskriver i min text www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/bOQ...
Fantasin om Antifa blir en möjlighet för Trump
Nu kan de komma åt den breda vänstern
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Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 White House press release: “far-left extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity the world has long reserved for jihadist terrorism.”
Är på Aftonbladet några veckor i sommar och börjar med en text om kriminaliseringen av antifascistiskt motstånd i USA - som kanske har relevans även för ett svenskt klimat där man pratar om huruvida det är tillåtet att hata polisen: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/bOQ...
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The thread includes multiple links to orgs that urgently need funds, everyone with a “Protect the Dolls” shirt better be sending money
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2mo agoIn Seattle, organizers are warning of a growing crisis as more and more trans refugees seek to escape red states. Mutual aid networks of "broke trans people helping broke trans people" are being overwhelmed, and one organizer @evanurquhart.bsky.social spoke with is facing eviction herself.
We love seeing our members’ work out in the wild (and supporting independent bookstores)! @kirajosefsson.bsky.social P.S. If you’re a literary translator like Kira, did you know our new Literary Translators Division is organizing for better working conditions? 👀 nwu.org/toc
A gift to read Sofija Popovska on BODY DOUBLE: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...
Prisoner of the Eye: A Review of Hanna Johansson’s Body Double - Asymptote Blog
Johansson produces a captivating, oneiric meditation on the threshold where being seen shifts into being consumed.
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Catapult Book Group@catapultbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Bending reality with its unsettling use of repetition and duplication, BODY DOUBLE is dazzling, rich with the play of mirrors at its core." — Asymptote Journal buff.ly/DEjgxcv
"What if you actually disappeared when you lost your sense of self? What if it were physically dangerous?" Elisa Shoenberger's interview with Hanna Johansson on "Body Double" (Translated by Kira Josefsson, @catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/08/b...
Disorientation and Uncanny in Hanna Johansson’s “Body Double” - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Hanna Johansson's new book, "Body Double."
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Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!
To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC...
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@esthermavis.bsky.social ’s review of Hanna Johansson’s BODY DOUBLE, explores the novel’s depiction of female intimacy and the eeriness that emerges when our sense of self erodes. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
On Harshaneeyam chatting about Ia Genberg, money, and greed, as I am wont to do. The interview is part of Harshaneeyam's excellent International Booker series. www.harshaneeyam.com/Kira/ Thanks Anil and @harshaneeyam.bsky.social !
Kira Josefsson on 'Small Comfort' (Nominated for the Internation…
"Welcome to Harshaneeyam Podcast. Today, we enter the intricate, wickedly humorous, and deeply observant world of Swedish author Ia Genberg . Joining us is the accl…
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Jesus wept. I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence. Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi
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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo agoGod help us.
Bryt alla diplomatiska, militära och ekonomiska förbindelser med skurkstaterna USA och Israel omedelbart. Sverige är i nuläget medskyldigt till varenda förbrytelse i Palestina, Libanon och Iran.
This is why using copyrighted work to training the models is not fair use, btw. They will just spit out straightforward plagiarism and I suspect it’s as difficult to prevent that, for the same reason it’s difficult to improve the error rate
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4mo agoJaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 4mo agopicture, thousan words, etc etc
Ia and I talking about SMALL COMFORT and some other favorites: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
An interview with Ia Genberg and Kira Josefsson, author and translator of Small Comfort | The Booker Prizes
The International Booker Prize 2026 nominated author and translator on their influences, how translation can dissolve divisions, and the writers whose work they always look out for
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Happy UK pub day to SMALL COMFORT! Swedish critics have called this Ia's best novel so far. I love all my children equally, but they're not wrong to say it's a special one. Out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ia-ge...
Small Comfort
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 'An exciting read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW 'I will be thinking ...
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Kira Josefsson@kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 5mo agoFeeling like the world's luckiest translator to be working with Ia again, and to be read so generously by the judges, who really get the book: "Breathtakingly original, profound but with a delicious dose of irreverence" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Out in UK in mid-March, US this summer!
can't wait for this, "the details" by ia genberg is one of the best pieces of translated lit coming out of the nordics in recent years (high praise!)
Kira Josefsson@kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 5mo agoFeeling like the world's luckiest translator to be working with Ia again, and to be read so generously by the judges, who really get the book: "Breathtakingly original, profound but with a delicious dose of irreverence" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Out in UK in mid-March, US this summer!
it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5mo agooh good
I loved Ia Genberg's The Details so I'm happy to see Small Comfort, a collection of linked short stories from @headlinebooks.bsky.social, on the #InternationalBooker2026 list - but frustrated that I have to wait another month to read it :( Congratulations to translator @kirajosefsson.bsky.social
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · 5mo agoPresenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026
Feeling like the world's luckiest translator to be working with Ia again, and to be read so generously by the judges, who really get the book: "Breathtakingly original, profound but with a delicious dose of irreverence" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Out in UK in mid-March, US this summer!
Small Comfort | The Booker Prizes
Intricately built and wickedly humorous, these five interconnected short stories are all about one thing: money
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Headline Books@headlinebooks.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are thrilled that Small Comfort has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026! Congratulations to author Ia Genberg and translator Kira Josefsson 🎉 #InternationalBooker2026
