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Merete Alfsen

メレテ・アルフセン

Merete Alfsen

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1950-02-14 (Norway)
Nationality
Norwegian
Languages
Norwegian

Career

Occupations
Translator, Literary critic, Freelance radio host
Active Years
1981-2024

Awards

Bastian Prize
1994
Work: Orlando
Category: 翻訳
Organization: Norwegian Booksellers' Association
Result: 受賞
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature
2011
Work: The Children's Book
Category: 翻訳
Result: 受賞
Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl
2016
Organization: Det Norske Akademi
Result: 受賞
Norwegian culture and church department's translator prize for child and youth literature
1992
Work: So much to tell you
Category: 児童青年文学
Organization: Norwegian culture and church department
Result: 受賞
Bokklubbenes skjønnlitterære oversetterpris
1997
Organization: Book Club
Result: 受賞
Bastian Prize for child and youth literature
2006
Work: The Wind Singer
Category: 児童青年文学
Organization: Norwegian Booksellers' Association
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Orlando

1994 Novel translation

Translation of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando into Norwegian.

GenderMetempsychosis

Legacy

Prominent Norwegian translator who has translated more than ninety books into Norwegian.

Trivia

  • Married to diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen from 1971 to 1982.
  • Daughter of engineer Petter Alfsen and Torill Riise-Hansen.