Congratulations to AATIA member Michael Meigs, whose translation of The Writing in the Water, a thriller written by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, will be released on November 11, 2025. The book is the first in the Bloodstorm series, featuring Julia Malmros, an ex-cop turned crime writer who teams up with a mysterious hacker to solve a murder.
Read more about the book and the author.
Michael Meigs settled in Austin after a thirty-year career as a US diplomat that included lengthy assignments in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. His literary translations have been awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s annual translation prize and the American Translators Association’s Lewis Galantière Award. His translation of Dolores Redondo’s The North Face of the Heart was short-listed for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. He has reviewed live narrative theatre in Austin and elsewhere in Central Texas since 2008, when he established his website www.CTXLiveTheatre.com. Michael is production coordinator for an Austin opera company and is a member of the Austin Theatre Critics Table. He is also AATIA’s current finance director.
The book will be published by Amazon Crossing and is available for pre-order now on the Amazon website.