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Graduate Student
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Victoria Häggblom is a current PhD student at UC Berkeley’s Department of Scandinavian. She has a BA in English from Humboldt State University, an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, and an MA in Scandinavian Languages and Literature from UC Berkeley. She is a writer and translator of Swedish; her translation of poet Bruno K. Öijer’s The Trilogy was published by Action Books in 2020 and won the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s translation prize. She has also received artist fellowships, residencies, and awards for her published short fiction. Victoria’s current research focuses on Ecocriticism, Critical Theory, Creative Writing, and Scandinavian modernist literature, especially Swedish poetry.
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