Lee Langvad

Lee Langvad (b. 1980) is a writer and translator who lives in Copenhagen. (S)he is the author of Find Holger Dane and SHE IS ANGRY – a testimony of transnational adoption, among others. Langvad has received the prestigious Montana’s Literature Prize. (S)he has translated works by Kim Hyesoon, Gertrude Stein & Alice B Toklas, and Max Frisch.

Articles by Lee Langvad

Visiting My Parents by Lee Langvad, trans. by Hazel Evans

In this excerpt from Lee Langvad's novel My Interpreter – translated from Danish by Hazel Evans – an adoptee narrator who lives in Denmark goes for a meal at her biological family's home in South Korea. During the visit, an interpreter must translate between her and her parents. The resulting (mis)understandings, beats, and silences manifest physically in the text's form.

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