Translators from Icelandic

A list of active translators from Icelandic into several languages, some information about them and their translations.


Translators

Kata Veress

Hungarian Ungverska

Kata Veress (née Rácz) holds an MA in Translation Studies from ELTE University in Budapest, a BA in Icelandic as a Second Language from the University of Iceland, as well as a BA in Norwegian and a BA in German Studies from ELTE University in Budapest.

She has been translating literature, films and technical texts mainly from Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German and English, and is one of the editors of the Hungarian Észak Journal for Nordic Studies.


Selected Translations

  • Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir: Dýralíf (Polar, 2021)

  • Guðmundur Andri Thorsson: Valeyrarvalsinn (Polar, 2021)
  • Lilja Sigurðardóttir: Gildran (Ø, 2021)
  • Kristín Eiríksdóttir: Elín, ýmislegt (Polar, 2020)
  • Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir: Mávahlátur (Metropolis Media Group, 2020)
  • Halldóra Thoroddsen: Tvöfalt gler (Metropolis Media Group, 2019)
  • Pétur Gunnarsson: punktur punktur komma strik (Polar, 2019)
  • Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir: Ör (Polar, 2018)


 

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