Heimska sold to Marpress, Poland

Marpress headquarters, Gdańsk. Photo credit: Artur Andrzej

Marpress editors in Poland have bought the publishing rights to the novel Heimska (Stupidity), to be published in spring 2025. Heimska is a dystopic novel about a pair of married writers in a performatistic, vanity-driven near-future who happen to write the same book. It has previously been translated to Swedish (John Swedenmark, Rámus) and French (Eric Boury, Editions Metailie), where it won the Transfuge literary award for best Scandinavian fiction. The polish translation will be in the hands of Jacek Godek.

In unrelated news I will be travelling to Poland in october for Przestrzen Slowa Festival (Space of Word Festival) in Sosnowiec.