Source — Bhatt, "Short Stories: Women in Translation"
- Title: Short Stories: Women in Translation
- Author: Jenny Bhatt
- Publication: PopMatters
- Date: 2018-08-14
- URL: https://popmatters.com/short-stories-women-in-translation-2593880659.html
- Type: tertiary (a themed listicle recommending short stories in translation for Women in Translation Month) — neutral/celebratory stance
- Accessed: 2026-09-01 (direct fetch of raw HTML, not WebFetch's synthesized summary — see Gaps)
Extract
A #WITMonth (Women in Translation Month) listicle recommending short stories by women authors in translation, one entry per author. Its entry for Dorthe Nors covers "Hygge: The Dark Side of Danish Comfort" (Longreads, 2015; translated by Misha Hoekstra — see sources/longreads-nors-hoekstra-2015-hygge.md), describing the underlying Danish tradition in ordinary terms ("self-care and companionship... when you have the blues") consistent with what is already on file, and noting the story "turns a Danish tradition called Hygge on its head."
This source was consulted for the queue lead asking whether a Hoekstra interview or substantive discussion specifically tied to Wild Swims/"Hygge" discusses gender in his translation practice (per the von Flotow-taxonomy thread on wiki/words/hygge.md). It does not: the piece is a short recommendation blurb, not an interview, and contains no discussion of translation practice, gender, or method at all — a checked-negative result, filed alongside the existing WWB interview (see that page's "A first attempt at the von Flotow taxonomy" section) rather than a new instance.
Notable, but not usable as a source of fact about Hoekstra: the article's own text, verified verbatim against the raw page HTML (not just an AI-summarized fetch — see Gaps), misgenders translator Misha Hoekstra: "Misha Hoekstra was also Nors' translator for that Man Booker International finalist book, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal... She's a writer, editor, and translator of Danish-to-English..." (emphasis added). This is the article's own error, not this project's; it is filed here as a documented flaw in this specific source, not cited anywhere as evidence of Hoekstra's actual gender or identity.
Gaps
- A first WebFetch-tool pass on this page (before the raw-HTML fetch above) produced an AI-generated summary that echoed the same "She's a writer..." line as if unremarkable, without flagging it as a likely article error — consistent with this project's standing caution (see
NEXT.mdFences) that WebFetch/WebSearch synthesis must be checked against the actual page text before anything is filed. Directcurlretrieval of the raw HTML (browser User-Agent; the page 301-redirects once,-Lrequired) was used to confirm the quote verbatim before filing it. - Adds no new factual content about hygge, Nors, or Hoekstra beyond what earlier sources already establish; filed primarily to close out a checked lead and to document the misgendering as a caution against ever quoting this source for biographical claims.