Join us for a lively conversation with award-winning translators Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally, who have plenty of stories to tell about the joys and controversies they have encountered in nearly three decades of translating Scandinavian fiction.
Terrace Gallery - Mon., Mar. 4, 2013, 7:00 PM
Free Event
Tiina Nunnally is best known for her translation of Sigrid Undset's epic trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, as well as Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Steven T. Murray is the renowned translator of Stieg Larsson's best-selling "Millennium" series, as well as detective novels by Henning Mankell and Camilla Läckberg. Together they have translated more than 80 classic and contemporary books into English. The panel will be moderated by literary columnist Katherine A. Powers.
Katherine A. Powers, USA (Moderator)
Katherine A. Powers is a literary columnist, twenty years for the Boston Sunday Globe and currently for Barnes and Noble Review. She is the editor of Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F.Powers, 1942–1963, forthcoming (August, 2013) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
Tiina Nunnally, USA
Nunnally is an award-winning translator of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, who sometimes uses the pseudonym Felicity David when edited into UK English. Her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize in 2001, and her translation of Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow won the American Translator's Association's Lewis Galantière Prize. The Swedish Academy honored Nunnally in 2009 with a special award for her contributions to "the introduction of Swedish culture abroad." Nunnally is married to Steven T. Murray.
Steven T. Murray, USA
Steven T. Murray is an American translator of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and German. He sometimes works under the pseudonym Reg Keeland when edited into UK English. He has translated the bestselling "Millennium" trilogy by Stieg Larsson, three crime novels and two African novels by Henning Mankell, three psychological suspense novels by Karin Alvtegen, and works by many other authors. In 2001, he won the Gold Dagger Award in the UK for his translation of Sidetracked by Henning Mankell. Murray founded Fjord Press and was editor-in-chief from 1981 to 2001, publishing mainly Scandinavian and German fiction in translation and a few American titles. Murray is married to Tiina Nunnally.
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