Bio

Brad Harmon is a translator and scholar of Nordic and German literature, and an aspiring essayist. His translations have appeared in venues ranging from Poetry, Denver Quarterly, and Circumference to The White Review, Swedish Book Review, and Best Literary Translations 2025. His debut book of literary translation, Katarina Frostenson’s poetry collection The Space of Time, appeared in November 2024 (Threadsuns Press). A first-generation college student, he earned a BA in German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, an MA in Scandinavian Literature from the University of Washington, and is currently completing a PhD dissertation on the ecopoetics of the body in German, Swedish, and Danish poetry at Johns Hopkins University. He has been an Emerging Translator Mentee with both the American Literary Translators Association (Swedish) and the British National Centre for Writing (Faroese), an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellow to Sweden, and a Fulbright fellow to Germany.

Project Description

To support the translation of the novel Who Killed Bambi? by Monika Fagerholm from Swedish. Who Killed Bambi? is a short, kaleidoscopic novel that follows the fallout of a gang rape committed by a group of wealthy teenage boys from Villastan, a fictional suburb of Helsinki. Nearly a decade after the violent incident, the silence that has kept the town in its grip begins to unravel with the news of a resident planning a film about the crime called Who Killed Bambi? Written in her signature winding postmodernist prose, Fagerholm's Who Killed Bambi? has been translated into a dozen languages and counting, won the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and has been adapted for the stage. Critically acclaimed and widely translated, Fagerholm (b. 1961) is one of the most innovative fiction writers in contemporary Nordic literature.