Tiina Nunnally: Difference between revisions

Nunnally was born in [[Chicago]]|Chicago, [[Illinois]], and grew up in [[Milwaukee]]|Milwaukee, [[Wisconsin]], and [[St. Louis Park]], [[Minnesota]]. She was an [[American Field Service|AFS]] exchange student to [[Århus]]|Århus, [[Denmark]] in 1969-70 and 1970. She received heran MA in 1976 from the [[University of Wisconsin, -Madison,]] and a [[Candidate of Philosophy|PhC]]{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} 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.{{citation Sinceneeded|date=June 2002 she has lived in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], with her husband [[Steven T. Murray]], both full-time freelance [[literary translator]]s.2015}}

Nunnally is an award-winninga 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/node/2449|title=Svenska Akademiens pris för introduktion av svensk kultur utomlands|date=20 December 2009|publisher=[[Swedish Academy]]|language=Swedish|accessdate=21 November 2017}}</ref>

* ''[[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)

* Award from the [[Swedish Academy]] for “the introduction of Swedish culture abroad” (2009). The citation noted in particular her translations of works by [[Per Olov Enquist]], [[Bodil Jönsson]], [[Astrid Lindgren]], and [[Klas Östergren]].

*Winner of the [[Independent Foreign Fiction Prize]], for ''[[The Visit of the Royal Physician|The Royal Physician's Visit]]'' by [[Per Olov Enquist]] (2003).

*Winner of the PEN/[[Book-of-the-Month Club]] [[PEN Translation Prize|Translation Prize]], for ''[[Kristin Lavransdatter]]: The Cross'' by [[Sigrid Undset]] (2001). The award citation noted that Nunnally had “returned a masterpiece of Scandinavian literature to the English bookshelf.”

*Winner of aWashington Governor's Writers Award from the State of Washington for her novel ''[[Maija]]'' (1996).

*Winner of the Lewis Galantière Award from the [[American Translators Association]], for ''[[Smilla's Sense of Snow]]'' by [[Peter Høeg]] (1994).

*Winner of the [[American-Scandinavian Foundation]] Translation Prize, for ''Early Spring'' by [[Tove Ditlevsen]] (1984).

* See [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821080214/http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Svenska_Akademiens_pris_for_introduktion_av_svensk_kultur_utomlands_2009.aspx] for information on TiinaNunnally's prize from the Swedish Academy] [(in Swedish].)

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