Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle (born 16 August 1962 in Bovrup, Sønderjylland) is a Danish writer.[1]
Biography
[edit]She was born in Bovrup, Sønderjylland[2] and has studied literature and philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark. In 1984, she published her first novel Lyrefugl (The Lyre Bird). Balle has travelled through Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada. She attended Forfatterskolen (writer's school) between 1987 and 1989. In 1996, she became editor of the literary journal Den blå port. She wrote &, a book of short prose that was published in 1990. Her 1993 group of stories Ifølge loven, fire beretninger om mennesket (According to the law: Four Stories about Humankind) earned her international recognition.[1]
She was co-author of the 1989 radio play Et netværk af stemmer, from a draft by Jens Christian Grøndahl. In 1992, with Anne Marie Dinesen and Christian Dorph, she translated Rosmarie Waldrop's The Reproduction of Profiles into Danish as Gengivelse af profiler. Balle published a collection of poems Eller in 1998.[2]
Barbara J. Haveland's 2024 English translation of Book I of Om udregning af rumfang, On the Calculation of Volume, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.[3]
Works
[edit]- Lyrefugl (1986, novel)
- & (1990, short prose)
- Ifølge loven, fire beretninger om mennesket (1993, short prose). According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind, trans. Barbara J. Haveland (Harvill Press, 1996)
- Eller (1998, poems)
- Det umuliges kunst (2005, art theory)
- Frydendal – og andre gidsler (2008, memoir)
- Hvis (2013)
- Så (2013)
- Om udregning af rumfang, I–V (2020–23)
- On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), trans. Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions, 2024)
- On the Calculation of Volume (Book II), trans. Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions, 2024)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 26–27. ISBN 0415159806.
- ^ a b Pedersen, Katja (2012). "Balle, Solvej". The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. Kvinfo.
- ^ "The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist". The New Yorker. 12 September 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Danish women novelists
- 20th-century Danish translators
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- People from Sønderborg Municipality
- 21st-century Danish women writers
- Danish women memoirists
- 21st-century translators
- Danish women poets
- 20th-century Danish poets
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