Misha Hoekstra
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Literary translator (DK –> US) & songwriter, bemused & curious

About:

Translated fiction includes works by Tine Høeg, Dorthe Nors, Christian Jungersen, Rikke Villadsen, Maren Uthaug and HC Andersen

 

Recipient of several fellowships from the Danish Arts Foundation, including a three-year fellowship, 2021–23

Recipient of a 2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for Tine Høeg's New Passengers

Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, 2018, for Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors

Den Danske Oversætterpris [the Danish Translation Award], Danish Arts Foundation, 2017

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, 2017, for Dorthe Nors's Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Finalist with Dorthe Nors for Best Book in Translation and Best Work of Experimental Literature, 2017 Literary Oscars, for So Much for That Winter

Leif & Inger Sjöberg Translation Prize for You Disappear by Christian Jungersen, American-Scandinavian Foundation, 2012

 

Chair, Århus Sangskriverværksted, the largest and most active songwriting collective in Europe. Song demos at minkahoist.com
Telephone: +45 2298 5543
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932 Silkeborgvej
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Denmark