List of Translators
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Jennifer Russell
Translator from the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish to English. Literature and arts.
Ellie Moriarty
Jennifer Alexander
Translator of Danish and Portuguese to English. MA (Hons) Scandinavian Studies with EU Studies from University of Edinburgh, DipTrans, DPSI. Member of CIoL. Based near Edinburgh, UK.
Sharon E. Rhodes
Sharon E. Rhodes is a Danish translator currently based in Rochester, New York. She loves to play with words and has been doing so professionally since 2011.
Edward Jordan Barger
Translator of Norwegian, Danish and French. Currently working on Sigbjørn Obstfelder and Yahya Hassan.
Nielsine Nielsen
Literary translator DA⇄EN. MSc in Translation Studies (Edinburgh University). Future podcaster.
Rob Myatt
Nearly a decade of experience in the translation industry. Shortlisted for John Dryden Prize 2021. Translations published in Your Impossible Voice, Turkoslavia. Collaborations with Turbine, V&Q, Hanser, Lenos and more.
Steven Sampson
American Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, long-term resident in DK, translation, editing, rewriting academic and non-fiction, incl. literary texts and project applications. Member DOF.
John Irons
Barbara Haveland
Larry Morlan
Larry has extensive experience as a translator, technical writer, communications specialist and technical editor.
Matthew Travers
I am a writer & translator based in Aarhus, Denmark. My translations of Inger Christensen, Caspar Eric, Peter Laugesen, Rudolf Broby Johansen & Glenn Bech have featured in small presses worldwide. Like working with daring, experimental literature.
Siân Mackie
Gaye Kynoch
Mark Mussari
William Frost
Tiina Nunnally
John Mason
Translator of quality academic or literary texts. 25 years experience. Selected for Oxford Poets 2004, nominated for the Impac Prize 2008. Has published poetry and academic articles. Member of Society of Authors, Dansk Forfatterforening etc.
Anna Halager
Anna is a Danish-British translator of Danish, and Norwegian, literature into English. She is bilingual and was educated in Denmark, England and Wales. Interests: Contemporary prose, etc. see below.
Martin Aitken
K.E. Semmel
K.E. Semmel has translated more than 15 books from Danish, including, most recently, Mathilde Walter Clark's Lone Star (with Martin Aitken). He's a 2016 NEA Translation Fellow for his translation of Simon Fruelund's The World and Varvara.
Sherilyn Hellberg
Sherilyn Hellberg is a writer and literary translator. She has published translations from the Danish of Jonas Eika, Ida Marie Hede, Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen, and Johanne Bille, among others.
Madelaine Gnewski
Writer, linguist & translator (DK, SE, NO > ENG) based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Megan Turney
Tam McTurk
Full-time translator (DK, NO, SW > ENG) for 25 years. Specialist in non-fiction (50+ publications) but game for anything. Member of Translators Association & Dansk Oversætterforbund. CV, list of publications and references available on request.
Nina Sokol
I translate both classical and contemporary Danish literature, ranging from H.C.Andersen to Bjørn Rasmussen, including plays, poetry and novels but I have also translated numerous other forms of non-fictional text.
Billy OShea
Billy O'Shea is a writer and translator who has lived in Copenhagen for more than thirty years.
Phillip Shiels
Claudia Comyn
Troy Wellington Smith
Troy Wellington Smith is a PhD student in Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, where he co-organizes the Translation Studies Working Group. He translates texts from his area of academic interest, i.e., the Danish Golden Age.
Hazel Evans
Writing in Danish and English (UK), translating from the former to the latter.
Terry Dunne
Mary McGovern
Mary McGovern translates primarily the works of the Danish writer Martinus (1890-1981) into English for The Martinus Institute, Denmark. Studied the science of translation and lexicography at The University of Copenhagen 1994-96.
Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Translator of poetry and literary fiction. Recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Young Artistic Elite Fellowship as well as the National Translation Award in Poetry for her English translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart.
Mark Gallacher
Mark is a Scottish writer and translator who lives in Denmark with his wife and two sons. Became a Danish citizen in 2019. Widely published. Runner-up Wigtown Poetry Prize 2021 – one of the UK's best established poetry prizes.
Fiona Harris
Fiona has 30 years' experience as an English translator of Danish and Norwegian. She has a diploma from Copenhagen Business School, a BA in Scandinavian Studies, UCL, and an MA (cum laude) in Norwegian Translation, Surrey University.
Ellen Sunde
Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov
Jenifer Lloyd
Caroline Waight
Award-winning literary translator working from Danish and German.
Lin Falk van Rooyen
Hunter Simpson
Jessica Aue
Christian Hoffman
Lise Kildegaard
Ian Giles
Specialising in samples of Danish crime, thrillers and suspense, as well as non-fiction.
Paul Russell Garrett
Paul translates a range of genres, including literary fiction, children's books, poetry, YA and plays.
Michael Goldman
Widely published translator of poetry and prose. Authors include Benny Andersen, Cecil Bødker, Tove Ditlevsen, Knud Sørensen, Knud Sønderby, and others.
Misha Hoekstra
Literary translator (DK –> US) & songwriter, bemused & curious
Ellen Kythor
DELT Founder.
Bride Baker
Becky Waterton
Becky graduated from German & Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2017 with a Distinction in Spoken Danish. She works at a newspaper translating Swedish and Danish news to English, and translates fiction and non-fiction freelance.