Alice Olsson

Translates between Swedish and English • PhD on Literature & Human Rights @UCL • ✍🏻 in @Harpers, @MsMagazine, In Other Words, @SwedishBooks, etc.

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

#Translation is saving me right now. When everything seems difficult, this wonderful, riveting, shimmering novel sings out to me and demands my full attention. It fills up my days and gives me a sense of purpose. Thank you, language.

[Scribe Publications @scribepub]

The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy (trans. Alice E. Olsson), illustrated by Anneli Furmark, is available now in all good bookshops.

Read the full interview here: https://t.co/9RK3apz2nV

[Scribe Publications @scribepub]

Earlier this year, our team sat down with author Clara Törnvall in anticipation of her newest novel, The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy.

We discuss her creative process, social discourse surrounding the book, and her thoughts on evolving cultural attitudes towards autism. ⁠

[Scribe UK @ScribeUKbooks]

Everyone has a task for the community …
Everyone is needed.
No one has to know everything.

We're extremely excited to unveil COLONY by Annika Norlin, translated by @AliceEOlsson, publish March 2025.

Preorder here: https://t.co/TvnrUWHA36

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

Swedish musician Annika Norlin is making her fiction debut at @scribeukbooks with Colony, about a young woman suffering from burnout and retreating to the woods to recover

https://t.co/AIfXDy5MPl (£)

[Scribe UK @ScribeUKbooks]

Huge congratulations to @AliceEOlsson who is shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize for her translation of THE HERD by @johananderberg! 🎉

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

@lhkuroda In an undisclosed location in the Swedish mountains

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

Crazy thought (who am I) but do I know anyone with experience of pitching a story/translation to the New Yorker (fiction)?

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

Colleagues in the US! I’m looking for information about the going rates for translation among US publishers. I know there’s a whole thing about price fixing but any pointers are most welcome. So far, I’ve found the 2017 Authors Guild survey. 🤓

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

Translators of Twitter! I want your best thoughts on (not?) translating dialect. What do you do? What have you read on the topic that was inspiring/helpful? Thanks!

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

Read. This. Thread.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

https://t.co/2C0NJ1wVKA

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

We are delighted to announce the #2022InternationalBooker Shortlist! Congratulations to all six sets of authors and translators. Click here to read more about the six shortlisted books and the people who created them: https://t.co/VBBrTmfNIH #shortlist

[Shaun Whiteside @shauntranslates]

Is this the coda?

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

leaving academia is always difficult but i think will smith made the right decision

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

Calling all sailors! What do you call the thing you moor your sailboat to? Jetty, dock, or something else? And what English do you speak (UK, US, etc)? Thanks!! ⛵️

[Alice Olsson @AliceEOlsson]

Same 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

“In war, mourning the loss of art, be it actual or anticipated, is not separate from mourning for the senseless disruption and destruction of human life. To live is to build, to repair, to illuminate, to leave traces in the fabric of time and space.”

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Tolstoy canceled 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/ZXgyWocDMD