Steven T. Murray

Steven T. Murray (1943–2018) was an American translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He worked under the pseudonyms Reg Keeland and McKinley Burnett when edited into UK English. He translated the bestselling ''Millennium'' series by Stieg Larsson, three crime novels and two African novels by Henning Mankell, three psychological suspense novels by Karin Alvtegen, and works by many other authors. In 2001 he won the Gold Dagger Award in the UK for his translation of '' Sidetracked'' by Henning Mankell.

Biography

Murray was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Oakland, Manila, Mexico City, and San Diego. He attended Stanford University on a General Motors National Scholarship and made his first trip to Europe in 1963 to study at Stanford-in-Germany in Beutelsbach near Stuttgart. He returned to Europe the next year with the Scandinavian Seminar to study at Krogerup Højskole in Humlebæk, Denmark, and later taught English conversation and American literature at Herning Højskole in Jutland. He received his BA in creative writing in 1972 from California State University, Hayward. His first paid published translations, two Norwegian science fiction stories by Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd in an anthology of European SF from DAW Books, appeared in 1976.

After seven years working in technical translation, editing, and foreign-language typography, Murray founded Fjord Press with Susan Doran and was editor-in-chief from 1981 to 2001 (Marin County, Berkeley and Seattle), publishing mainly Scandinavian and German fiction in translation as well as a few American and British titles.

Selected translations

From Swedish

* ''Enemy's Enemy'' by Jan Guillou, with Tiina Nunnally under pseudonym Thomas Keeland (1992)
* ''Faceless Killers'' by Henning Mankell (1997)
* ''Sidetracked'' by Henning Mankell (1999)
* ''The Fifth Woman'' by Henning Mankell (2000)
* ''Detective Inspector Huss'' by Helene Tursten (2002)
* ''Betrayal'' by Karin Alvtegen (2005)
* ''Shame'' by Karin Alvtegen (2006)
* ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' by Stieg Larsson under pseudonym Reg Keeland (2008)
* ''The Eye of the Leopard'' by Henning Mankell (2008)
* ''The Ice Princess'' by Camilla Läckberg (2008)
* ''The Girl Who Played with Fire'' by Stieg Larsson under pseudonym Reg Keeland (2009)
* ''The Crusades Trilogy 1: The Road to Jerusalem'' by Jan Guillou (2009)
* ''Shadow'' by Karin Alvtegen under pseudonym McKinley Burnett (2009)
* ''The Preacher'' by Camilla Läckberg (2009)
* ''The Crusades Trilogy 2: The Templar Knight'' by Jan Guillou (2009)
* '' The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest'' by Stieg Larsson under pseudonym Reg Keeland (2009)
* ''The Crusades Trilogy 3: Birth of the Kingdom'' by Jan Guillou (2010)
* ''The Stonecutter'' by Camilla Läckberg (2010)
* ''Daniel'' by Henning Mankell (2010)
* ''The Gallows Bird'' by Camilla Läckberg (2011)
* ''Nefilim'' by Åsa Schwarz (2011)

From Danish

* ''The Sardine Deception'' by Leif Davidsen, with Tiina Nunnally (1986)
* ''Witness to the Future'' by Klaus Rifbjerg (1987)
* ''Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 1: Childhood'' by Martin Andersen Nexø (1989)
* ''Another Metamorphosis & Other Fictions'' by Villy Sørensen, with Tiina Nunnally (1990)
* ''Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 2: Apprenticeship'' by Martin Andersen Nexø, with Tiina Nunnally (1991)
* ''War'' by Klaus Rifbjerg, with Tiina Nunnally (1995)

From Norwegian

* ''The Abduction'' by Mette Newth, with Tiina Nunnally (1989)
* ''Like Thunder: A Play'' by Niels Fredrik Dahl (produced 2001)
* ''A Wealth of Tradition: Jøtul, 1853–2003'' by Dag Ove Skjold (2003)

From Spanish

* ''Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's Legendary All-Girl Dance Band'' by Alicia Castro with Ingrid Kummels, US edition (from German and Spanish) (2007)
* ''Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band'' by Alicia Castro with Ingrid Kummels, UK edition (from German and Spanish) (2007)

From German

* ''The Philosopher's Kiss'' by Peter Prange (2011)
* ''Snow White Must Die'' by Nele Neuhaus (2013)
* ''Bad Wolf'' by Nele Neuhaus (2014)
* ''The Ice Queen'' by Nele Neuhaus (2015)
* ''To Catch A Killer'', also known as ''I Am Your Judge'', by Nele Neuhaus (2016)

Awards

* Jens Peter Jacobsen Prize from the Limfjord Region Literary Society, Thisted, Denmark, for editing new translations of two classic works by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1994)
* Columbia Translation Center award for '' Witness to the Future'' by Klaus Rifbjerg (1985)

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External links

Steven T. Murray's blog

{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Steven
Swedish–English translators
Danish–English translators
Norwegian–English translators
German–English translators
Writers from Berkeley, California
Writers from Oakland, California
1943 births
Living people
California State University, East Bay alumni
20th-century American translators
21st-century American translators
Date of death missing