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Anastasia Naumova - Translator of the month for February

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Anastasia Naumova

Anastasia Naumova translates both fiction and non-fiction; from Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, and from English to Russian. She is also employed as a lecturer at Moscow University of the Humanities, where she and her colleagues are doing their best to cultivate a new generation of translators. Her latest translation is Good Dogs Don’t Make It to the South Pole by Hans-Olav Thyvold, and she is currently working on My Struggle: Book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgård.

Since she has translated many children’s books we asked about her thoughts on why so many children’s books are translated from Norwegian into Russian:

«In the Russian book market, Nordic children’s books are quality assured and have long traditions. I believe this is because Norwegian and other Nordic authors of children’s book mostly try to relate to children and young people without building a hierarchy where the author as an adult takes an elevated position. They do not talk to, but with their readers, and this builds a lot of trust from the young readers.»

Learn more about Anastasia on Books from Norway.

Those of you who understand Norwegian can read her Translator of the Month interview in full here.

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See other translators interviewed in our Translator of the Month series here.

Books from Norway provides you with English-language information about all genres of Norwegian literature. The information is provided by the rightsholders and NORLA.

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Norway as Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse

Norway was Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019. Please visit our website Norway2019.com for information about the project.

Frankfurt 2019