Sophia Hersi Smith

Sophia Hersi Smith translates fiction and poetry by Danish writers, including Tove Ditlevsen, Solvej Balle, and Olga Ravn, often alongside fellow translator Jennifer Russell. With Russell, Hersi Smith translated Ditlevsen’s There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), the first poetry collection by Ditlevsen to be published in English.

Hersi Smith lives in Copenhagen.