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Balsam Karam (b. 1983) is of Kurdish ancestry and has lived in Sweden since she was a young child. She is an author, librarian, and university lecturer, and made her literary debut in 2018 with the critically acclaimed Event Horizon, which was shortlisted for the Katapult Prize. Her second novel, The Singularity, was published in Sweden in 2021 and was shortlisted for the August Prize. Saskia Vogel is the author of Permission and the translator of over twenty Swedish-language books. She was awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature and was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize. From Los Angeles, she now lives in Berlin.
Praise for The Singularity ""A beautiful and harrowing English-language debut... This is powerful."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review ""Astringent, fuguelike. . . . A knotty, sui generis evocation of mothers' feelings of fear and loss."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Mesmerizing and harrowing, The Singularity is a novel of personal and cultural loss and anguished remembrance."" --Foreword Reviews ""Two narratives refract and then come together in a poetic convergence... there is a haunting, hushed tone to the novel, neatly evoked by Saskia Vogel's translation from the Swedish, that probes the disorienting effects of exile."" --The New York Times ""This understated, hypnotic novel hummed in my blood."" --Hudson Review ""Transformative... Karam's writing is sharp, piercing, and full of chasms."" --Words Without Borders ""The Singularity is a sweeping look at the generational grief of migration, narrated in a poetic rhythm that moves like an elegy."" --Asian Review of Books ""I don't know anyone who writes like Balsam Karam. She blows me away. Truly one of the most original and extraordinary voices to come out of Scandinavia in. . . forever. You'll realize twenty minutes after you've finished The Singularity that you're still sitting there, holding on to it."" --Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove
