2020-05-06

Juste Nepaite - Translator of the Month

May’s Translator of the Month is Justė Nepaitė from Lithuania. She mainly translates fiction but also other genres, and her translation of Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle 3 was released in January. Later this year, Jon Fosse’s Scenes from a Childhood / Morning and Evening will be available in her translation. Justė has also translated a number of Norwegian picture books for children, for use among Lithuanian children attending kindergartens in Norway.
In addition to being a translator, Juste has also been a tutor of Norwegian language and culture for a number of years.

Justė Nepaitė
Justė Nepaitė

Learn more about Justė here.

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

Book covers of Karl Ove Knausgård's «My Struggle 1 – 3», translated by Juste.
Karl Ove Knausgård's «My Struggle 1 – 3», translated by Juste.

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