Natalia Ivanychuk awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit

During an event at the Ukrainian Embassy in Oslo last Friday, her decoration was also celebrated on Norwegian soil. Everyone at NORLA offers Natalia Ivanychuk our very warmest congratulations!

At the moment, we have the pleasure of having Natalia in Oslo as she is one of the four translators staying at our Translator’s Hotel.
Read more here.

Natalia Ivanychuk has opened doors for many Norwegian authors to be translated and published in Ukraine, and she has herself taken great care of a number of authors who have visited the country.
She had translated no less than approximately 50 Norwegian titles, by contemporary authors like Jostein Gaarder, Linn Ullmann, Chris Tvedt, Tom Egeland, Nina E. Grøntvedt and Gudrun Skretting.
In addition to these, she has also translated a number of classics, among them Ibsen, Bjørnson, Hamsun, Vesaas, Heyerdahl and Anne-Cath. Vestly.

In 1997, Natalia founded the Nordic Centre at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, where she now holds the position of Vice Director. And she is still a lecturer of Norwegian and German at the University’s Faculty of International Relations, Department for Foreign Languages.
Through her position at the university she has greatly contributed towards the Ukrainian students’ increased interest in Norwegian language, literature and culture. Several of her students have also become translators.

See a list of most of her almost 50 publications here.

Read more about Natalia Ivanychuk here
and (in Ukrainian) here.

If you happen to read Norwegian, we recommend our Translator of the Month interview with her from 2016 here.

Read more about the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.