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Winner of the Swedish Radio’s Prize 2021

In 19th-century Sweden, Caesaria is kept in a doctor's mansion as a
trophy: she is the first baby to be born alive from one of his c-sections. In a Gothic ambiance, Caesaria narrates in first person her experiences in the mansion and her encounters with its mysterious inhabitants and visitors. Does she know where she comes from? Where is her mother? Is there a world beyond these walls?

Hanna Nordenhök masterfully blends the elements of storytelling with the history of gynecology, bringing to life the story of Caesaria.

Hanna Nordenhök (Malmö, 1977) has been awarded several major literary honours for her work. Her novel Caesaria scooped Swedish Radio’s Literary Prize and was also shortlisted for Vi’s Literature Prize. Nordenhök also works as a translator from the Spanish and has been praised for her translations of Fernanda Melchor, Andrea Abreu and Gloria Gervitz. Her last novel is Wonderland.

Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator of over two-dozen Swedish language books. Her novel Permission was published in five languages. She is a recipient the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature, the Bernard Shaw Prize, two English PEN Translates Awards, and was a PEN America Translation Prize finalist. She was Princeton’s Fall 2022 Translator in Residence. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.