About this Event
Join us for the November edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible.
We're thrilled to welcome Brad Harmon as the featured guest, in celebration of the new book he translated: Who Killed Bambi? by Monika Fagerholm. Published to great acclaim in the original Swedish, Who Killed Bambi? weaves together a complex network of causality and consequences as it examines the aftermath of a sexual assault.
Fagerholm’s indicting, sharp prose, aptly translated by Brad Harmon, leads the reader back and forth through time, abandoning linear narrative. This kaleidoscopic, elliptical approach shatters the facade of contemporary polite society, examining the sinister forces that attempt to maintain and protect the status quo in the years following a violent event that shocks an entire community.
Professor Dora Malech will join Brad Harmon for this exciting conversation.
Whether it's your first time at the series or you've been attending for years, we hope you'll join us to usher this exciting new book into the world!
Order WHO KILLED BAMBI? here!
Brad Harmon translates from primarily Swedish and German. His work appears in dozens of venues ranging from Poetry to Chicago Review has been several times honored by Best Literary Translations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous organizations in the US, Scandinavia, and Germany. His book-length translations include poetry by Katarina Frostenson and Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger, fiction by Monika Fagerholm, and biographies of Avicii and Björn Borg. Forthcoming books include Johannes Anyuru's collection Only the Gods are New (Vanderbilt, 2027) and Esther Kinsky's collection Slates (Fitzcarraldo, 2028). He is a PhD candidate in Modern Languages & Litertures at Johns Hopkins.
Dora Malech’s most recent books of poetry are Trying × Trying (2025), and Flourish (2020), both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Best American Poetry, and her honors include an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Mary Sawyers Baker Prize. She lives in Baltimore, where she is a professor and department chair in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the editor in chief of The Hopkins Review.
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Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, United States
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