Wild Boar

Hannah Lutz was born in 1984 and grew up in Ekenäs, in southern Finland. She has an MA from Finland’s Åbo Akademi University. She later moved to Denmark and attended the Writing School in Copenhagen. Still based in Denmark, she lives just outside Roskilde. Her short story ‘Den elfte versionen’ / ‘The Eleventh Version’ won the Umeå Short Story Award, Sweden, in 2011. Vildsvin / Wild Boar is Lutz’s debut novel. Written in Swedish, it was first published as the Danish translation in 2016 by Rosinante in Denmark; the original Swedish text was first published in 2017 by Förlaget in Finland and Albert Bonniers Förlag in Sweden. Her second novel, Selma, was published by Förlaget in Finland in 2023. Andy Turner is a writer, reviewer, translator, and former school teacher and examiner. He works with both Swedish and German and is a member of SELTA and the Translators Association of the Society of Authors. He graduated with an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia in 2017. He was Swedish mentee in the 2018-19 National Centre for Writing's Emerging Literary Translator Mentorships Programme, working alongside Sarah Death. His translation of 'Wild Boar' by Hannah Lutz is his first full-length adult translation publication.

‘Hannah Lutz’s novel is an allegory of humanity’s plight in the age of impending climate catastrophe.’ - Sydsvenskan