Discover the longlist: Sherilyn Hellberg, ‘My translations percolate with whatever else I’m reading’
Hellberg details her journey into the world of translation and the wealth of contemporary Danish fiction that captivated her.
Sherilyn Hellberg
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Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg is a writer and literary translator
Hellberg was born in West Islip, New York in 1991. She has published translations of Johanne Bille, Tove Ditlevsen, and Ida Marie Hede. In 2018, she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for her translation of Caspar Eric’s Nike. Hellberg currently lives in Copenhagen.
All nominated books
With irrepressible urgency, Eika’s astonishing fiction juxtaposes startling beauty with grotesquery, and balances the hyper-realistic with the fantastical
By Jonas Eika
Translated by Sherilyn Hellberg
