Hanna Nordenhök: *Wonderland* , with translator Saskia Vogel

Join us at EBB for the launch of Hanna Nordenhök's latest novel *Wonderland*, a haunting, literary exploration of the creative power of lies to reshape reality, published in the UK by Héloïse Press. The author will be in conversation with translator Saskia Vogel.

From the author of *Caesaria* (launched back in 2024 at EBB) comes *Wonderland*, a spellbinding study of the many faces of deception. A novel that, with clear prose, depicts a chameleon-like existence where truth and lies are never easily separated. It follows three different characters, wandering an ominous contemporary world saturated with abandonment and false mirrors. On the Pacific Coast, a homeless woman travels between cities and towns pretending to be a child. At a hotel in Athens, two rival Catalan journalists become entangled in a risky game of fact and fiction. And in a luxury villa in Southern Sweden, a housewife chooses to lie at the expense of others in order to maintain the only life she can tolerate living. Around them appears a hall of mirrors inhabited by a range of unreliable characters: bluffing children, doped up martial artists, ghostwriters, dishonest politicians, ecocriminals,and fashionable jetsetters so disfigured by plastic surgery that there seems to be nothing left of their original selves. All of them individuals trying to find their way in that slippery world of post-truth that we've gotten to know as our own.

'Dark and deeply human.' - Dahlia de la Cerda, author of *Reservoir Bitches*

'Hypnotic and unsettling, Hanna Nordenhök has penned a fever dream of late capitalism and deception. It’s impossible to shake.' - Lucy Rose, author of *The Lamb*

'In *Wonderland* lies and truth are sinisterly intertwined. Written in a daring, brutal and masterly elaborated prose, it exposes our contemporary humanity in all its beauty and monstrousness.' - Johanne Lykke Holm, author of *Strega*

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Hanna Nordenhök started out as an acclaimed poet but has in recent years captivated readers with her dark ravishing novels. Her work has been awarded and shortlisted for a number of prestigious literary awards, *Caesaria* (2020) scooped Swedish Radios Novel Prize and her most recent novel, *Wonderland* (2023), was shortlisted both for VI:s Literature Prize and The Eyvind Johnson Prize, as well as listed among The Best Books of The Year in a number of Swedish daily papers and magazines. In 2025, her oeuvre was awarded the honored Stina Aronson Prize. Hanna is also a translator and has been praised for her translations from the Spanish of authors such as Alia Trabucco Zerán, Samanta Schweblin and Aurora Venturini.

Saskia Vogel is a writer, a translator of over two-dozen Swedish language books, and the co-creator and deputy editor of the new Erotic Review. Her novel Permission was published in six languages. She is a recipient of the Berlin Senate grant for non German literature, the Bernard Shaw Prize, two English PEN Translates Awards, and was a National Book Award and PEN America Translation Prize finalist. In fall 2022, she was Princeton’s Translator in Residence. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.