Jordan Barger

Literary Translator. Tor Ulven, Leander Djønne, Synne Sun Løes, Yahya Hassan, Svein Jarvoll, Steinar Løding, et alia

Published translations in bio link \/

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Ecstatic to finally announce that my translation of Tor Ulven’s “Consumption: Prose Pieces” will be coming out on Wakefield Press early next year.

This is the beginning of my commitment to seeing his ten other books translated.

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@avecsesdoigts 👃🏻👃🏻

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@katherineveritt and here I thought the entangled was immutable 🤦

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I love spooorts and books, go birds

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@unpaginated I spend all my days walking round South Philly grinning like a fool

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“Knausgaard speculated that, had Lund ‘written in English, he would have been on the level of Thomas Pynchon or whoever. He’s that good.’”

@LOLGluckstadt on THE MYSTERY OF WHAT BEFELL IN THE DITCH by Thure Erik Lund (tr. @smithigans_wake) (@andothertweets)https://t.co/knIFQMgqoZ

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My favorite compliment is “there something wrong with your stereo?” 🥰🥰🥰

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@daikanjyo @poetryaccnt1518 Yi Yi over here

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@iamagodard @KafkaWords like Gregor not realizing he grew wings, Franz never realized he had a siiiick view of the river

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@bartlebytaco They were often cited as the favorite bands of a lot of indie bands in the late 90s. But I’m with you, it’s like saying the Sex Pistols are a great post punk band just cus they played that one show

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@brutenorse Alright that one sounds pretty good. Hilarious name to boot

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I’m learning horrific, terrible things about Danish and Swedish casseroles and meatloaves from the 70s

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CW: casserole

the others I will only mention by name: forloren hare & brændende kærlighed

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@Eric_T_Racher don't go in there!

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@jdalewrites god no. that shit would attract ants

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@JakobIngvardsen I'm sorry you had to hear it here

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translated by Brian Young and Kareem Abu-Zeid respectively

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too many young-dead Danish poets, just enough elegies for them

Tom Kristensen -> Gustaf Munch-Petersen
Najwan Darwish -> Yahya Hassan

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@DreamRedo Same, I’d be doomed without translation

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I keep doing translation cus it keeps making me leap out of bed and out the door by 8am