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Line 1: {{short description\|American author and translator (born 1952)}} {{Multiple issues\| {{BLP ~~unsourced~~sources\|date=February 2015}} {{COI\|date=October 2010}} }} {{Use mdy dates\|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox person \|birth_date={{Birth date and age\|1952\|08\|07}} \|birth_place=[[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S. \|occupation=Translator \|spouse=[[Steven T. Murray]] }} '''Tiina Nunnally''' (born August 7, 1952) is an ~~[[United States\|~~American]] author and [[translation\|translator]].▼ ==Early life and education== ▲'''Tiina Nunnally''' (born August 7, 1952) is an [[United States\|American]] author and [[translation\|translator]]. 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~~1969 and 1970. She received an MA in 1976 from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and a [[Candidate of Philosophy\|PhC]]{{cncitation 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.{{cncitation needed\|date=June 2015}} ~~Since 2002 she has lived in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], with her husband [[Steven T. Murray]], both full-time freelance [[literary translator]]s.~~▼ ▲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]], [[Denmark]] in 1969–70. She received an MA in 1976 from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and a [[Candidate of Philosophy\|PhC]]{{cn\|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.{{cn\|date=June 2015}} Since 2002 she has lived in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], with her husband [[Steven T. Murray]], both full-time freelance [[literary translator]]s. ==Career== Nunnally is ~~an award-winning~~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".<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> ==Personal life== Since 2002 she has lived in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], with her husband [[Steven T. Murray]], both full-time freelance [[literary translator]]s. ==Selected translations== Line 28 ⟶ 39: * ''[[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== Line 37 ⟶ 49: * 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 == {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [~~http~~https://~~depts~~scandinavian.washington.edu/~~scand/faculty~~people/tiina-nunnally~~.shtml~~ Affiliate Faculty] page at the University of Washington * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821080214/http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Svenska_Akademiens_pris_for_introduktion_av_svensk_kultur_utomlands_2009.aspx Nunnally's prize from the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) {{Authority control}} Line 52 ⟶ 67: [[Category:Swedish–English translators]] [[Category:Norwegian–English translators]] [[Category:~~People~~Writers from Milwaukee~~, Wisconsin~~]] [[Category:Writers from Wisconsin]]▼ [[Category:People from St. Louis Park, Minnesota]] [[Category:~~Writers~~Novelists from Minnesota]] [[Category:American women novelists]] [[Category:20th-century American novelists]] [[Category:21st-century American novelists]] [[Category:20th-century American women writers]] [[Category:21st-century American women writers]] [[Category:20th-century translators]] [[Category:21st-century translators]] [[Category:Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico]] [[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni]] [[Category:Novelists from Illinois]] ▲[[Category:~~Writers~~Novelists from Wisconsin]]