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• Winner of August Prize 2016

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`It's been a long time since I read something this unique, seething, wilful.' Svenska Dagbladet`What a novel! I'm totally charmed! I was completely absorbed by The Polyglot Lovers . . . it's really, really fabulous. Every sentence is great. [This] is a book to read and discover and read over and over again.' Boras Tidning ---- `Dizzying . . . Lina Wolff has written a many-voiced, meandering, feminist, arresting and rather provocative novel.' Kulturnytt, Sweden Radio --- `Wolff has written a kind of blackened, heart-rending satire on gender roles, in which the tempo of the pacily inventive - and downright gorgeous - prose complicates, enlivens and plays with the eloquent lovers she's taken it upon herself to portray.' Kristofer Folkhammar, Aftonbladet --- `You know when a novel is so thrilling that you just don't want it to end? That's what it was like reading Lina Wolff's third book The Polyglot Lovers. I have high expectations . . . and yet they were surpassed.' Sydsvenskan --- Praise for Lina Wolff --- `Wolff's prose has a quality of otherness entirely in keeping with the surreal atmosphere of the novel. This strange, provocative debut sits well alongside the work of Roxane Gay, Katherine Angel, Maggie Nelson, Zoe Pilger and Miranda July . . . a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literature.' Sarah Perry, The Guardian --- `A filmic offering . . . channelling the spirit of Pedro Almodovar. A thoroughly invigorating novel.' Lucy Scholes, The Independent ---- `The Polyglot Lovers is storytelling as a martial arts combination move, delivered with precision, style and glee.' Sjon ---- `Like Virginie Despentes and Elfriede Jelinek, Lina Wolff stares the reader right in the eyes and speaks in a voice uniquely her own: The Polyglot Lovers is clear, stark, devastating.' Joanna Walsh

`It's been a long time since I read something this unique, seething, wilful.' Svenska Dagbladet`What a novel! I'm totally charmed! I was completely absorbed by The Polyglot Lovers . . . it's really, really fabulous. Every sentence is great. [This] is a book to read and discover and read over and over again.' Boras Tidning ---- `Dizzying . . . Lina Wolff has written a many-voiced, meandering, feminist, arresting and rather provocative novel.' Kulturnytt, Sweden Radio --- `Wolff has written a kind of blackened, heart-rending satire on gender roles, in which the tempo of the pacily inventive - and downright gorgeous - prose complicates, enlivens and plays with the eloquent lovers she's taken it upon herself to portray.' Kristofer Folkhammar, Aftonbladet --- `You know when a novel is so thrilling that you just don't want it to end? That's what it was like reading Lina Wolff's third book The Polyglot Lovers. I have high expectations . . . and yet they were surpassed.' Sydsvenskan --- Praise for Lina Wolff --- `Wolff's prose has a quality of otherness entirely in keeping with the surreal atmosphere of the novel. This strange, provocative debut sits well alongside the work of Roxane Gay, Katherine Angel, Maggie Nelson, Zoe Pilger and Miranda July . . . a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literature.' Sarah Perry, The Guardian --- `A filmic offering . . . channelling the spirit of Pedro Almodovar. A thoroughly invigorating novel.' Lucy Scholes, The Independent

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Lina Wolff has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You (forthcoming in English translation from And Other Stories in 2020). Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, her first novel, was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and Sweden's Vi Magazine Literature Prize, and shortlisted for the prestigious 2013 Swedish Radio Award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives in southern Sweden. Her second novel, The Polyglot Lovers, won Sweden's biggest domestic literary prize, the August Prize, and the Svenska Dagbladet Prize. Saskia Vogel is an author and translator from Los Angeles, now living in Berlin. Permission, her debut novel, will be published in English, Spanish, French and Swedish in 2019. She has translated leading Swedish authors such as Karolina Ramqvist, Katrine Marcal, and Lena Andersson. Her translations and writing have appeared in publications such as Granta, Guernica, The White Review, The Offing, Paris Review Daily, and The Quietus.

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