Johanne Lykke Holm (b. 1987) is an author and translator. She also teaches the course Hekseskolen (The School of Witches) with Danish author Olga Ravn. It is a literature and writing course that focuses on the voices of young women in various ways.
Johanne Lykke Holm has translated Yahya Hassan, Josefine Klougart and Hiromi Itō, to name a few, to Swedish.
The Night the Preceded this Day is her debut.
What a way to end a week! The North American rights to Johanne Lykke Holm’s breath-taking novel STREGA have been picked up by Riverhead. Riverhead will publish simultaneously with Lolli Editions (UK + Commonwealth) late autumn 2022. “STREGA is a startling and powerful book about young women on the cusp of inheriting—and perpetuating—submission to...
The fantastic Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm keeps getting shortlisted for major awards. This time, it's the European Union Prize for Literature. Congratulations, Johanne!
Sweden’s new literary star has arrived: Johanne Lykke Holm has been shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literary Prize 2021 for her novel Strega. The prize is awarded to a work of a ”high literary and artistic quality”, written in one of the Nordic languages. Each year, collectively fourteen books from...
What better way to start the week than to announce that Johanne Lykke Holm has been shortlisted to the prestigious Svenska Dagbladet literary Prize for her novel Strega. Strega is a cinematic novel that inhabits the borderland between Virgin Suicides, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Suspiria and Melancholia.The story is filled with romanticist, esoteric moods that are...
