Sigrid Nørgaard

Sigrid Nørgaard grew up surrounded by her father's library in Aarhus, where Danish crime novels shared shelf space with French existentialism and dog-eared Penguin Classics. She studied comparative literature in Copenhagen before a research fellowship on Golden Age Spanish poetry brought her to Madrid, where she never quite left. For over a decade she has written literary criticism for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, with a particular fondness for translated fiction and the quiet violence of Scandinavian prose.