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Queen (Faber Editions): Introduced by Sarah Moss

Birgitta Trotzig

Sarah Moss

Saskia Vogel

Lose yourself in this tumultuous Swedish family saga, introduced by Sarah Moss ('a masterpiece')

Judit is stubborn and singular, distant and unyielding. She is called Queen.

Her realm is a windswept farm on a misty Swedish coastline.When she is nine, her dying mother places Judit's brother Viktor in her arms, and the two are bonded for life. Together with their silent brother, Albert, they forge a precarious family. But Judit has her secrets; she dreams amidst the salt spray. And when Viktor emigrates to America, the ground beneath her feet forever shifts.

Translated into English for the first time, Queen (1964)is a visionary family saga: a mythic epic in miniature, mystical and anarchic. One of the greatest Swedish novelists of all time, Birgitta Trotzig casts another worldly light across the souls of her characters - and her readers.

Translated by Saskia Vogel

'Fear, rage, love, resentment: the full range of human emotion is here . . . A story fuelled by inevitability and cold beauty.' Sarah Moss

Classification : Translation
Pub Date : FEB 12, 2026
Imprint : Faber Fiction
Page Extent : 160
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9780571393633
Price : INR 999

Birgitta Trotzig

Birgitta Trotzig (1929-2011) was born in Gothenburg. She studied literary history before marrying artist and sculptor Ulf Trotzig in 1949,living within the vibrant community of the Valand School of Fine Arts. After moving to Italy then France, she converted to Catholicism and became immersed in European modernism as well as the resistance movement against the Algerian War.On returning to Sweden in 1969, she had three children, with a fourth born later. One of Scandinavia's most celebrated authors of fiction,prose poetry and cultural criticism, Trotzig's debut novel was published when she was twenty-one - and her award-winning writing continued to explore religion, politics and existentialism, always giving a voice to the vulnerable. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, she was elected to the Swedish Academyin 1993. Trotzig died in Lund in 2011.

Sarah Moss

Sarah Moss is the author of eight novels, most recently The Fell and Summerwater. Her memoir of her year living in Iceland, Names for the Sea was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her novels include Summerwater, Cold Earth, Night Waking, Bodies of Light (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), Signs for Lost Children (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), The Tidal Zone (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and Ghost Wall, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019. She was born in Glasgow, grew up in the north of England and now lives in Ireland, where she teaches on the MFA and MA creative writing programmes at University College Dublin.

Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel is from Los Angeles and lives in Berlin where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on power and sexuality for publications such as Paris Review Daily The White Review Sight and Sound and The Offing. Previously she worked as Granta magazine's publicist and as an editor at the
AVN Media Network where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products.