Saskia Vogel

Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel (born September 17, 1981) is an American author and translator.

[1][2] Permission, her debut novel, was published in English,[3][4] Spanish,[5] Italian,[6] and Swedish[7] in 2019 and has been optioned for television.

She has translated leading Swedish authors such as Karolina Ramqvist, Katrine Marcal, Johannes Anyuru and Rut Hillarp.

Vogel has written on the themes of gender, power and sexuality, and her translations and writing have appeared in publications such as Granta,[8] Guernica, The White Review, The Offing,[9] Paris Review Daily,[10] and The Quietus.

[13] In 2018, her translation of Karolina Ramqvist's The White City was shortlisted for the Petrona Award.