I read and translate Scandinavian fiction for Anglophone and Danish publishers and agents. Blessed with Scandinavian family ties, I partially grew up in Denmark and Danish is my first source language, but in summer 2019 I expanded my practice to Faroese fiction – through extensive reading and translating (samples) in the well-established fashion of learning-by-doing! My first book-length Faroese project, a collaborative anthology of Faroese fiction from the 19th century to the present, is forthcoming with DEDALUS Books in July 2024. Details of translation publications appear in the gallery below.

For those who prefer, here is a more formal translator bio in the third person:

Lindy Falk van Rooyen translates Danish and Faroese fiction into English. She holds an LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Stellenbosch and an MA in English and Scandinavian Literature from the University of Hamburg. Since 2016 her work has been acknowledged with various awards, including third place in the John Dryden Translation Prize for The River that Runs both Ways [Kort over Paradis] by Knud Romer, a PEN Heim Translation Award for HOPE by Mich Vraa, and numerous grants from the Danish Arts Council and the Faroese Arts Council, most recently for The Dead Fill Days with a Taste of Coins by Carsten Müller Nielsen and ½ Moon ½ Sun by Jóanes Nielsen. Book-length translations include Transfer Window by Maria Gerhardt (Nordisk Books, 2019) and What my Body Remembers by Agnete Friis (Soho Press, 2017). With the support of the Faroese Arts Council current projects include Infinitely Vera by Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs and a collaborative anthology of Faroese Fiction from 1900 to the present, The Dedalus Book of Faroese Literature (ed. Malan Marnersdóttir), forthcoming with DEDALUS Books (UK) in July 2024.