Kira
Josefsson
Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and literary translator working between English and Swedish. Her translation of Ia Genberg’s The Details was shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize, and her translation of Johanna Hedman’s The Trio was shortlisted for the 2023 Bernard Shaw Prize. In 2017, her work on Pooneh Rohi’s The Arab won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she has lived in Helsinki, Paris, and Montréal; New York City has been her home for more than ten years. She also writes on US issues in the Swedish press.
Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and literary translator working between English and Swedish. Her translation of Ia Genberg’s The Details was shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize, and her translation of Johanna Hedman’s The Trio was shortlisted for the 2023 Bernard Shaw Prize. In 2017, her work on Pooneh Rohi’s The Arab won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she has lived in Helsinki, Paris, and Montréal; New York City has been her home for more than ten years. She also writes on US issues in the Swedish press.
