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Stine Pilgaard is a graduate of the Danish Writers'
Academy and the University of Copenhagen. Her first novel, My Mother Says, was a critical and commercial success in Denmark,
securing its author the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Award and earning a nomination for the
prestigious Danish Broadcasting Corporation Literature Prize. The Land of
Short Sentences, also published by World Editions, was an instant bestseller
and critics' favorite. It won the prestigious Weekendavisen Litteraturpris and
the Danish Booksellers' Association's Golden Laurels award.
Hunter Simpson is originally from North Carolina and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Stine Pilgaard's The Land of Short Sentences (World Editions, 2022) was his first published literary translation and won the Scandinavian American Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize for 2021. My Mother Says is his second published translation.
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