I am a translator with over 35 years’ experience. I have won the George Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation from Swedish three times and in 2014 I was awarded the Royal Order of the Polar Star for services to Swedish language and literature.

I have translated books in a wide variety of genres, including children’s stories, memoir, the collected letters of Finland-Swedish writer and Moomin creator Tove Jansson, and the work of many contemporary literary writers.

I am interested in the work of nineteenth and early-twentieth century women writers such as Fredrika Bremer, Victoria Benedictsson, Elin Wägner and the first female Nobel laureate, Selma Lagerlöf. I am the editor of Norvik Press’s series ‘Lagerlöf in English’.

I have also translated crime fiction, from Per Wahlöö via Håkan Nesser’s Barbarotti novels to Karin Smirnoff’s titles for the Millennium  series, most recently The Girl with Ice in her Veins  (2025).

I am a contributor or translations and reviews to Swedish Book Review.