On the Calculation of Volume IV

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Tara Selter's world is expanding. 'A literary phenomenon nearly 40 years in the making.' The Cut 'A classic in the making.' Chetna Maroo 'Startling.' New Yorker 'Absolutely wonderful.' Lauren Groff

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Solvej Balle was born in 1962 and made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl (Lyrebird.) She went on to write one of the 1990s' most acclaimed works of Danish literature, Ifølge loven (1993) ('According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind', translated by Barbara Haveland.) On Calculation of Volume is Solvej Balle's return to literary stardom after nearly 30 years. Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith are translators from the Danish based in Copenhagen. Their translations include My Work by Olga Ravn and There Lives a Young Girl In Me Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen. In 2020, they were awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Translation Prize. Their translations have appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Granta, Asymptote, and on stage.

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