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Henning Koch

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Henning Koch is a translator from Swedish, and a fiction writer. His first book was a short story collection, "Love Doesn't Work", 2011, and he followed this up with a novel "The Maggot People", 2014, both published by Dzanc Books.

Koch's translations include works by Hannes Råstam, Artur Lundkvist, Fredrik Backman, Birgitta Stenberg, Martin Shibbye, Tom Malmquist, and Anders Rydell.

One of his Fredrik Backman translations was a 2015 nomination for the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction.

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	Love Doesn't Work 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maggot People 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Publikumsmagneten: Markenmanagement von Kulturbetrieben 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demokrati - slå til! Statslig nødret, ordenspoliti og frihedsrettigheder 1932-1945 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Clinch (Harry Kvist) by Martin Holm?n (2016-06-07) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The book thieves; the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance. Translated by Henning Koch 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The two men looked at each other for a moment. Then Sonja's father nodded. And Ove nodded curtly back. And then they rose to their feet, objective and determined, in the way two men might behave if they had just agreed to go and kill a third man.”
― Henning Koch, A Man Called Ove

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“You miss the strangest things when you lose someone. Little things. Smiles. The way she turned round in her sleep. Even repainting a room for her.”
― Henning Koch, A Man Called Ove

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