The Looren Translation Grants 2011 have been awarded.

The following translators, each translating the work of a Swiss author into a Scandinavian language, have been awarded grants:

  • Anna Bengtsson, Stockholm, Sweden
    (German > Swedish)

    Friedrich Glauser, Gourrama

    To read a review (in Swedish) of Anna Bengtsson’s translation of Christian Kracht’s novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, click here

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  • Christine Marie Bredenkamp, Zagreb, Croatia
    (German > Swedish)

    Melinda Nadj Abonji, Tauben fliegen auf

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  • Hans Kolstad, Læsø, Denmark
    (French > Norwegian)

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur les sciences et les arts

    As well as Rousseau, Hans Kolstad has also translated philosophical writings by Henri Bergson, Blaise Pascal, and René Descartes into Norwegian.

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  • Elisabeth Olin, Stockholm, Sweden(French / Italian > Swedish)

    Anne-Lise Grobéty, La fiancée d’hiver / Anna Ruchat, In questa vita 

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