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Kerri Pierce

Contributor

Kerri Pierce

United States

Kerri Pierce is a writer and translator living in Pittsford, New York. She has translated fiction and nonfiction from eight languages. Her short translations have appeared in The New Yorker and World Literature Today, among other places, and her novel translations have been finalists for the PEN Translation Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Pennsylvania State University.

Articles by Kerri Pierce

The Light Never Reaches Here

In the wilderness, you live in a simple house, you wake to your beloved’s face, you almost exclusively hear her voice.

Translated from Norwegian by Kerri Pierce

Under

By Merethe Lindstrøm

He was just a face, a hand, and the knife.

Translated from Norwegian by Kerri Pierce

A close-up of a streetlight shining on a snowy evening

Photo by Batu Özmen on Unsplash

Light

By Gunnhild Øyehaug

Boundaries between the possible and the impossible in everyday life dissolve in this short story by Gunnhild Øyehaug.

Translated from Norwegian by Kerri Pierce

Two reindeer on a rocky ledge with a body of water behind them

Photo by Jørgen Håland on Unsplash

Journey toward the Island

Norway’s Laila Stien tracks a group of Sámi herders guiding their reindeer on the seasonal migration to the north, fighting obstacles both natural and man-made.

Translated from Norwegian by Kerri Pierce

An Expansion, a Journey, a Knife

By Kerri Pierce

Each of the stories chosen for this feature presents us with characters in the midst of what are to them life-altering situations.