Laurie Thompson

Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English. He is the former editor (1983–2002) of the Swedish Book Review, and former lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Bibliography

• The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell, 2010
• The Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser, 2008
• Kennedy's Brain, by Henning Mankell, 2007
• The Return by Håkan Nesser, 2007
• Frozen Tracks by Åke Edwardson, 2007
• Shadows in the Twilight by Henning Mankell, 2007
• Borkmann's Point by Håkan Nesser, 2006
• The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell, 2006
• Depths by Henning Mankell, 2006
• Playing, Writing, Wrestling, six Swedish writers, 2006
• Never End by Åke Edwarson, 2006
• Sun and Shadow by Åke Edwarson, 2005
• A bridge to the stars by Henning Mankell, 2005
• Art Goes Underground, Art in the Stockholm metro, 2004
• I Die, but the Memory Lives on by Henning Mankell, 2004
• The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell, 2003
• Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi, 2003
• The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell, 2001
• Night Watch by Malin Lindroth, 2000
• After the Campfires by Per Jorner, 1999
• The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, 1998
• Johnny, my Friend by Peter Pohl, 1991
• Swedish State Cultural Policy, 1990
• Pithy Poems by Stig Dagerman, 1989
• The Black Period of Adalbert, 1988
• Stig Dagerman, 1983
• Swedish Proses, 1982
• People and Places, 1969

Awards

• 2003 Swedish Academy award for introduction of Swedish culture abroad.
• 1986 Honorary Doctor at Linköping University