Norwegian to English Literary Translator
Rosie Hedger was born in Scotland and completed her MA (Hons) in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2010. Rosie’s work has been nominated for a range of prizes, including the Dublin Literary Award, Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2019, the Great Lakes Great Books Awards, the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger and the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year, among others. Her translation of The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn received an an English PEN Translates Award and was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. Rosie has worked in schools, universities and libraries over the years, and she has mentored two emerging Norwegian translators through the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translators Programme.
A selection of Rosie’s published work can be found here. If you have a project you would like to discuss, please do get in touch at rosielouisehedger[at]gmail.com, or using the contact form below:
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