When Mathilde\'s stepfather dies in Denmark, she is plagued by worries about the potential death of her American father on the other side of the Atlantic.
In 2019 he was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of Love by Hanne Ørstavik ..
In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation\'s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.
Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines.
He is a recipient of numerous grants from the Danish Arts Foundation and is a 2016 NEA Literary Translation Fellow.
Andersen, Thomas Rydahl, and Jesper Bugge Kold.
His translations include books by Karin Fossum, Naja Marie Aidt, Erik Valeur, Jussi Adler Olsen, Simon Fruelund, Kenneth B.
Semmel\'s work has appeared in the Ontario Review, Washington Post, World Literature Today, Southern Review, Subtropics, Lithub, and elsewhere.
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She currently lives in Copenhagen.
She is the winner of the Carlsberg Foundation\'s Discovery of the Year prize in literature
Lone Sta r was awarded one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Danish Arts Foundation.
Clark was a resident artist at 100 W Corsicana in small-town Texas, where she worked on the manuscript for Lone Star .
Louis, Missouri, Clark went on to live in Buenos Aires and New York and travel extensively across the world.
Having spent her childhood traveling between her mother\'s house in Denmark and her father\'s in St.
About author(s): Mathilde Walter Clark is a novelist and essayist from Denmark.
At once a travelogue and family novel, Lone Star occupies the often-mythologized landscape of Texas to share a story of being alive and claiming the right to feel at home, even across the ocean.
These irrevocable gaps swirl as Mathilde voyages to meet her father in Texas to explore a relationship that still has time to grow.
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Lone Star is about distances: the miles between a father and daughter; the detachment between Mathilde\'s Danish upbringing and her American family; the separation of language; and the passage of time between Mathilde\'s adulthood and the summers she spent as a child in St.
In a desire to catalog her love for, and memories with, her father, Mathilde travels to America and writes a novel about their relationship that she has always known she should write.
When Mathilde\'s stepfather dies in Denmark, she is plagued by worries about the potential death of her American father on the other side of the Atlantic
