Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator from Swedish and German into English. She was awarded a Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature and was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize. She is also the author of Permission, which was longlisted for the Believer Book Award. Saskia is based in Berlin and she is the English-language translator of two Swedish authors at the 2025 West Cork Literary Festival – Balsam Karam and Lina Scheynius.

Saskia Vogel’s attendance at West Cork Literary Festival is supported by the Swedish Arts Council in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden, UK as part of their Stories From Sweden programme