Ninni Holmqvist

Ninni Holmqvist, born in 1958 and currently living in Skåne, Sweden, is a translator and author of fiction. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories since 1995. Her novel The Unit, (Other Press) a dystopian novel published in 2006 and translated from Swedish into English by Marlaine Delargy with its paperback publication in 2009.^[1] The Unit has received critical attention both from major literary reviews ^[2] and analysis in academic journals.^[3]

Bibliography

• The suit (Kostym) 1995
• Something of a lasting nature (Något av bestående karaktär) 1999
• Supporting Roles (Biroller) 2002
• Black Diamonds (Svarta diamanter: elva berättelser om liv och död) 2004
• The Unit (Enhet) Translated into English and published in 2009. Initially published in 2006.

References

1. Other Press author page
2. http://saggett.fastest.cc/Dissertation.pdf
3. Disability and Disease in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction: Justice and Care Perspectives, S. Schotland, 2011

External links

• Other Press author page
• Washington Post review of The Unit