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K.E. Semmel is a writer and translator. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ontario Review, Lithub, The Millions, HuffPost, Electric Literature, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Southern Review, Washington Post, and elsewhere. The Book of Losman is his debut novel.

His translations include novels by, among others, Naja Marie Aidt, Karin Fossum, Simon Fruelund, and Jussi Adler Olsen. He is a former Literary Translation Fellow from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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	The Absent One (Department Q, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 45,591 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold (Goodreads Author), K.E. Semmel (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 6,474 ratings — published 2014 — 10 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 Caller (Konrad Sejer, #10) by Karin Fossum, K.E. Semmel (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 5,091 ratings — published 2009 — 56 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 Seventh Child 3.05 avg rating — 3,513 ratings — published 2011 — 44 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 Hermit (Erhard Jørgensen, #1) by Thomas Rydahl, K.E. Semmel (Goodreads Author) (Translation) 3.06 avg rating — 868 ratings — published 2014 — 31 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
	Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt, K.E. Semmel (Goodreads Author) (Translation) 3.34 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 2012 — 12 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 Wall Between by Jesper Bugge Kold (Goodreads Author), K.E. Semmel (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2017 — 13 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
	Civil Twilight by Simon Fruelund, K.E. Semmel (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2006 — 5 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
	Milk and Other Stories by Simon Fruelund, K.E. Semmel (Goodreads Author) (Translation) 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1997 — 7 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 of Losman 4.51 avg rating — 39 ratings — 5 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

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