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
Olga Ravn
Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors
She is also a literary critic and has written for Politiken and several other Danish publications. Alongside Johanne Lykke Holm, she runs the feminist performance group and writing school Hekseskolen.
All nominated books
Olga Ravn explores what it really means to be human, while questioning the logic of productivity and a life governed by work
