Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Jacques Testard with all my heart for publishing Companions in English, and Paul Russell Garrett for his fine translation.

I am also very grateful that my agent Laurence Laluyaux has succeeded in bringing Companions outside the borders of Denmark and into the world.

I want to thank my Danish publisher of many years, Jakob Malling Lambert, for all his enthusiasm and support.

And finally I want to thank the translator Roger Greenwald, who previously translated some pieces from Companions which appeared in various literary magazines and in the Best European Fiction 2013 anthology; and allowing us to reproduce his translation of ‘Three Little Chinamen’ in this edition.