Turid Farbregd (born 1941) is a Norwegian philologist and translator. She was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1989, for her translation of poetry by Jaan Kaplinski into

Norwegian language Norwegian ( no, norsk, links=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regio ...

. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2013, for her translation of

Katja Kettu Katja Maaria Kettu (born ''Heikkinen'', April 10, 1978) is a Finnish contemporary writer and film producer. She debuted in 2005 with the novel ''Surujenkerääjä''. The book was nominated for the Helsingin-Sanomat literature prize as best debut n ...

's book ''Kätilö'' (The Midwife) into Norwegian. She was appointed

Government scholar Government scholar (Norwegian, ''statsstipendiat'') is a position awarded by the Parliament of Norway upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Research and funded directly over the State budget of Nor ...

in 1995.

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1941 births Living people Norwegian translators Norwegian government scholars Translators from Finnish Translators from Estonian Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class Translators to Norwegian {{Norway-writer-stub