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    Solvej Balle

    Solvej Balle was born in 1962, made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl, and she went on to write one of the 1990s’ most acclaimed works of Danish literature, According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind (praised by Publishers Weekly for its blend of “sly humor, bleak vision, and terrified sense of the absurd with a tacit intuition that the world has a meaning not yet fathomed”). Since then, she’s published a book on art theory, Det umuliges kunst, 2005, a political memoir Frydendal og andre gidsler, 2008, and two books of short prose Hvis and Så, published simultaneously in 2013. On the Calculation of Volume is Solvej Balle’s major comeback, not just to Danish or Nordic fiction, but—expanding the possibilities of the novel—to all of world literature.

    Solvej Balle

    Solvej Balle was born in 1962, made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl, and she went on to write one of the 1990s’ most acclaimed works of Danish literature, According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind (praised by Publishers Weekly for its blend of “sly humor, bleak vision, and terrified sense of the absurd with a tacit intuition that the world has a meaning not yet fathomed”). Since then, she’s published a book on art theory, Det umuliges kunst, 2005, a political memoir Frydendal og andre gidsler, 2008, and two books of short prose Hvis and Så, published simultaneously in 2013. On the Calculation of Volume is Solvej Balle’s major comeback, not just to Danish or Nordic fiction, but—expanding the possibilities of the novel—to all of world literature.

    Books by Solvej Balle

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize

      Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland

      Paperback, 2024

      Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s...

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)

      Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland

      Paperback, 2024

      Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize

      Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland

      E Book

      Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s...

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)

      Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland

      E Book

      Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

      Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell

      E Book

      “A literary phenomenon nearly forty years in the making, and a speculative masterwork” (New York Magazine), Balle’s epic On the Calculation of Volume in Book III introduces new thrills to the...

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

      Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell

      Paperback, 2025

      “A literary phenomenon nearly forty years in the making, and a speculative masterwork” (New York Magazine), Balle’s epic On the Calculation of Volume in Book III introduces new thrills to the...

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

      Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell

      Paperback, 2026

      The fourth installment of Balle’s expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western world

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

      Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell

      E Book

      The fourth installment of Balle’s expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western world

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