Tiina
Nunnally

Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator (from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and novelist. She was awarded the prestigious PEN Translation Prize in 2001 for her translation of the third volume of Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Tove Ditlevsen for Penguin Classics have been widely praised.

PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2017

Philip Teir

The Winter War

2011

Mikkel Birkegaard

The Library of Shadows

2009

Morten Ramsland

Doghead

2008

Per Olov Enquist

The Story of Blanche and Marie

2003

Per Olov Enquist

The Royal Physician’s Visit

2001

Linn Ullmann

Before You Sleep

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