Blue Notes

About Anne Cathrine Bomann

Anne Cathrine Bomann lives in Copenhagen dividing her time between writing and working as a psychologist. She also played table tennis for Denmark and won the national championship twelve times. She is also the author of two poetry collections and the debut novel Agatha which became a word-of-mouth success following publication in Denmark and has now been translated into twenty-three languages.Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish German and Norwegian. She has translated a wide range of fiction and non-fiction with recent publications including The Lobster's Shell by Caroline Albertine Minor (Granta 2022) Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann (Book*hug Press 2021) Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen (Pushkin Press 2021) and The Chief Witness by Sayragul Sauytbay and Alexandra Cavelius (Scribe 2021). She grew up travelling around the world living in eight different countries. Having first studied music at Cambridge Oxford and Cornell she worked in publishing before transitioning into full-time literary translation. She now lives and works near London.