It’s your text – take my words for it.
Literary translator working between Finnish and German. Bringing contemporary fiction, children’s books, and non-fiction to new audiences through careful, culturally sensitive translation.
What I do
I’m a professional translator, primarily of literary and non-fiction texts, from Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish into English. I also work with medical and legal documents from the same languages as well as from German.
I welcome your request for a proposal for translations of any length, proofreading or language checking, or, as my schedule permits, occasional post-editing tasks. I do not work with texts involving generative AI, nor will I consent to having my texts processed to train such programs.
My clients have included Penguin/Random House, Bonnier Rights, Cappelen Damm, Rights & Brands, Bonnier Rights Finland and other agencies as well as private individuals.
Recent translations
My full-length translations
Gun-Britt Sundström, Engagement
(Maken: En förhållanderoman). Penguin/Random House, 2025
Pekka Kujamäki: Interpreting Brothers-in-Arms
Joachim and Kim Wall, A Silenced Voice
(Boken om Kim Wall: När orden tar slut). Amazon Crossing, 2020
Selection of my published excerpts
From Swedish Book Review:
2025: from Kafka’s Lung by Cecilia Hansson
(Kafkalungan, 2024, Wahlström & Widstrand, in special edition)
2025:1 from An Endlessly Long Spring by Lida Starodubtseva
(En oändligt lång vår, 2023, Nirstedt/litteratur, 27 March 2025)
2023:3 from Turn My Heart Towards Home by Ann-Luise Bertell
(Vänd om min längtan), 2016, Förlaget, 25 October 2023
2023:2 from The Flight of the Swallows by Majgull Axelsson
(Svalornas flykt), 2022, Norstedts, 19 September 2023
From Asymptote:
2022 Special issue on Swedish Literature, from My Name is Not Miriam
by Majgull Axelsson (Jag heter inte Mirjam), 2014, Brombergs
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