Tiina Nunnally

Tiina Nunnally (born August 7, 1952) is an American author and translator.

Early life and education

Nunnally was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She was an American Field Service, AFS exchange student to Århus, Århus, Denmark in 1969 and 1970. She received an MA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Candidate of Philosophy, PhC from the University of Washington in 1979. She has a long association with the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, but she is not a salaried faculty member.

Career

Nunnally is a translator of Danish language, Danish, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish, who sometimes uses the pseudonym Felicity David when edited into UK English. Her translation of ''Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross'' by Sigrid Undset won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize in 2001, and Peter Høeg's ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' won the American Translators Association's Lewis Galantière Prize.

Her first novel, ''Maija'', won a Washington State Book Award, Governor's Writers Award from the State of Washington in 1996. Since then two more of her novels have been published.

The Swedish Academy honored Nunnally in 2009 with a special award for her contributions to "the introduction of Swedish culture abroad".

Personal life

Since 2002 she has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband Steven T. Murray, both full-time freelance literary translators.

Selected translations

* ''Niels Lyhne'' by Jens Peter Jacobsen (from Danish) (1990)
* ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' [American title] by Peter Høeg (from Danish) (1993); [UK reprint title: ''Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' under pseudonym F. David]
* ''Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath'' by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (1997)
* ''Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife'' by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (1999)
* ''Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross'' by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (2000)
* ''Don't Look Back (novel), Don't Look Back'' by Karin Fossum (from Norwegian) under pseudonym Felicity David (2002)
* ''He Who Fears the Wolf'' by Karin Fossum (from Norwegian) under pseudonym Felicity David (2003)
* ''Fairy Tales'' by Hans Christian Andersen (from Danish) (2004)
* ''When the Devil Holds the Candle'' by Karin Fossum (from Norwegian) under pseudonym Felicity David (2004)
* ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' by Sigrid Undset, Deluxe Classics edition (from Norwegian) (2005)
* ''Chronicler of the Winds'' by Henning Mankell (from Swedish) (2006)
* ''Pippi Longstocking'' by Astrid Lindgren, a new translation, illustrated by Lauren Child (from Swedish) (2007)
* ''The Copenhagen Trilogy'' by Tove Ditlevsen (from Danish) (2019)

Honors and awards

* Award from the Swedish Academy for “the introduction of Swedish culture abroad” (2009)
* Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for ''The Visit of the Royal Physician, The Royal Physician's Visit'' by Per Olov Enquist (2003)
* PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club PEN Translation Prize, Translation Prize, for ''Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross'' by Sigrid Undset (2001)
* Washington Governor's Writers Award for her novel ''Maija'' (1996)
* Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association for ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' by Peter Høeg (1994)
* American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize for ''Early Spring'' by Tove Ditlevsen (1984)

References

External links

Affiliate Faculty
page at the University of Washington

Nunnally's prize from the Swedish Academy
(in Swedish)

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Writers from Chicago
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