
Olga Ravn and Martin Aitken on The Employees
Author Olga Ravn and translator Martin Aitken on the jumbled statements in The Employees and what it’s like to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Martin Aitken has translated numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Høeg, Ida Jessen, and Kim Leine.
He was a finalist at the US National Book Awards 2018 and received the PEN America Translation Prize 2019 for his translation of Hanne Ørstavik’s Love.
By Olga Ravn
Translated by Martin Aitken