Ninni Holmqvist
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Ninni Holmqvist, born 24 June 1958 in
Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
and currently living in Scania,
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
, is a translator and author of fiction. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories since 1995. Her nove
''The Unit''
( Other Press) a dystopian novel published in 2006 and translated from Swedish into English by Marlaine Delargy with its paperback publication in 2009. ''The Unit'' has received critical attention both from major literary reviews and analysis in academic journals.Disability and Disease in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction: Justice and Care Perspectives, S. Schotland, 2011


Bibliography

*The suit (''Kostym'') 1995 *Something of a lasting nature (''Något av bestående karaktär'') 1999 *Supporting Roles (''Biroller'') 2002 *Black Diamonds (''Svarta diamanter: elva berättelser om liv och död'') 2004 *The Unit (''Enhet'') Translated into English and published in 2009. Initially published in 2006.


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Other Press author page
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