Caroline Waight
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Award-winning literary translator working from Danish and German.

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Selected Translations
• Caroline Albertine Minor, The Lobster’s Shell, Granta (2022)
• Sayragul Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius, The Chief Witness, Scribe (2021)
• Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, Island, Pushkin Press (2021)
• Johannes Krause & Thomas Trappe, A Short History of Humanity, Penguin (2021)
• Kristian Bang Foss, Death Drives an Audi, Parthian (2021)
• Anne Cathrine Bomann, Agatha, Sceptre (2019)
• Caroline Albertine Minor, “Grief’s Garden,” Granta 149 (2019)
• Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man, Penguin (2019)
• Rüdiger Barth & Hauke Friederichs, The Gravediggers, Profile (2019)
• Mikkel Rosengaard, The Invention of Ana, Harper Collins (2018)

Awards
• O. Henry Prize (2021)
• Translate in the City Prize (2015)
• Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation (2014)