Laura Vogt Author

Laura Vogt (Teufen, 1989) studied Creative Writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and Cultural Studies at the University of Luzern. What Concerns Us is her second novel, which she started writing just two months after having her first child. In her work, Laura is particularly interested in exploring the complexity of relationships, maternity, as well as inquiring into the many forms that womanhood can take. Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, German and Norwegian. She translates both fiction and non-fiction, with recent publications including The Lobster's Shell by Caroline Albertine Minor (Granta, 2022), Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen (Pushkin Press, 2021) and The Chief Witness by Sayragul Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius (Scribe, 2021). She is based near London. About What Concerns Us, Caroline says: 'It is the characters in Laura Vogt's incisive novel that really appeal to me as a translator. The three women are perceptively and utterly unsentimentally drawn, each with their own type of language: finding a way to bring that alive in English has been an endlessly fascinating challenge'.