Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past 30 years, Danish author Solvej Balle has remained hard at work on her sprawling seven-part novel, On the Calculation ...

“Translating Solvej Balle’s work is a rare treat. Her writing is spare and taut, there is nothing superfluous here, nothing random. Every word is weighed, every phrase and sentence finely honed. The ...

Expect to see International Booker shortlisted Balle’s name cropping up on books of the year lists. The first parts of the Danish author’s projected septology were published in April. We’re now on to ...

Every so often, an author in translation with a hit novel series in their home country or region arrives to the U.S. and becomes a fresh phenomenon in the States. Recent examples include Elena ...

What if stories were written in time than in space as we mostly know it? What would happen to characters caught in time and its murky tick-tock? Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I, ...

For the past 30 years, Danish author Solvej Balle has remained hard at work on her sprawling seven-part novel, On the Calculation of Volume. An ambitious, encyclopedic work that spans hundreds of ...