Ninni Holmqvist

Ninni Holmqvist (born 1958 in Lund ) is a Swedish writer and translator.

Life

Ninni Holmqvist grew up in southern Sweden, Malmö. She went to various professions, before she decided on the letter. Writing courses they attended at the community colleges in Skurup and on the island Biskops - Arnö at Håbo and the University of Gothenburg.

Works and translations

Her first published book was a collection of stories that appeared in 1995 under the title Kostym in the Stockholm Publishing Group Nordstedts. Her first novel, published in Nordstedts av under the title Nagot stocks karaktär 1999, came in 2004 in a German translation (as The seduced ) as Suhrkamp Taschenbuch out. Your dystopian novel Enhet which appeared in Sweden in 2006, was widely translated, for example into Norwegian ( 2007 dam as Enheten ), English ( 2008, Other Press as The Unit ), German (2008 Fahrenheit when publishing and 2011 as the Fischer- Paperback as The Dispensables ), Russian (2010 материал as Биологический at rippol classic, revisions under the title Вечернее платье должно быть сексуальным ) and French ( 2011 Éditions SW Télémaque as L' unité ).

It was in 2010 with the Swedish 15,000 crowns doped Ludvig Nordström priset of Ludvig Nordström Society awarded.

Ninni Holmqvist transferred including works by Natasha Illum Berg, Sara Blædel, Bright Light, Iselin C. Hermann, Christina Hesselholdt, Peter Høeg and Ida Jessen from the Danish and Adam Thirlwell, Kurt Vonnegut and Xinran from English into Swedish.

Novels

• Något av stocks karaktär. Nordstedts, Stockholm 1999, ISBN 978-91-1-300664-2.

• Enhet. Nordstedts, Stockholm 2006, ISBN 978-91-1-301612-2.

Short story collections

• Kostym. Nordstedts, Stockholm 1995, ISBN 978-91-1-942251-4.
• Biroller. Nordstedts, Stockholm 2002, ISBN 978-91-1-301039-7.