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Katrine Øgaard Jensen

A portrait of translator from the Danish Katrine Øgaard Jensen
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Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Denmark

Katrine Øgaard Jensen is a journalist, writer, and translator from the Danish. She previously served as editor in chief of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and as blog editor at Asymptote. Her translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry collection Third-Millennium Heart is forthcoming from Broken Dimanche Press in 2016....

Katrine is currently a poetry judge for the Best Translated Book Award and will be teaching fiction in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Columbia University in the spring.

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Articles by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

WWB Team Picks: Favorite and Future Reads of 2015/2016
By Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Because it’s the season for end-of-year lists, and because 2015 has been yet another year of authors in translation hacking the system and gaining terrain in mainstream media outlets (Lispector,…
After Inger Christensen: Humans, Plants, and Planets in New Danish Poetry
By Katrine Øgaard Jensen
So what happens next in Danish translation?
from “Third-Millennium Heart”
By Ursula Andkjær Olsen
I will remain unwritten.
Translated from Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen
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The Translator Relay: Amaia Gabantxo
By Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Our “Translator Relay” series features a new interview each month. This month's translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. For November's installment,…