Elin Cullhed is a Swedish author who made her debut in 2016. Euphoria is her first novel for adults. It won the 2021 August Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award, and was a finalist for the Strega European Prize.
Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator and artist. She is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and MacDowell, among others. Her translations from the Swedish include work by Athena Farrokhzad, Iman Mohammed and Ida Börjel.
On the 90th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth, Elin Cullhed shares this insightful guide to the great writer’s work, from The Bell Jar, to the poems, to essays, journals and short fiction. (Elin’s wonderful novel Euphoria is an imaginative portrayal of the last year of Plath’s life.)
Elin Cullhed
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