Nordic Fauna

In these six short stories, Andrea Lundgren explores a liminal space where the town meets the wilderness and human consciousness meets something more animalistic. A train stops on the track in the middle of the night and a lone woman steps out of the open doors, following a call from deep in the forest. A father is haunted by the nocturnal visits of an elusive bird, and a young girl finds escape through the occult. From foxes to whales to angels, the creatures that roam through this collection spark a desire for something more in their human counterparts: a longing for transformation.

Andrea Lundgren was born in 1986 and grew up in the far north of Sweden. Her debut novel, I tunga vintrars mage, was published in 2010 and was followed in 2014 by Glupahungern. Nordisk Fauna, her first short-story collection, was published in 2018. It was awarded the 2018 Tidningen Vi's Literature Prize and was nominated for the 2018 Svenska Dagbladet's Literature Award and the 2019 Norrland Literature Prize.