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*Winner, Barry Award for Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade, USA, for ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'' by [[Stieg Larsson]] (2010) |
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*Shortlisted for Anthony Award, Best Novel, USA, for ''[[The Girl Who Played with Fire]]'' by [[Stieg Larsson]] (2010) |
*Shortlisted for Anthony Award, Best Novel, USA, for ''[[The Girl Who Played with Fire]]'' by [[Stieg Larsson]] (2010) |
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*Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2009-2010 published in the UK, for ''[[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest]]'' by [[Stieg Larsson]] (2010) |
*Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2009-2010 published in the UK, for ''[[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest]]'' by [[Stieg Larsson]] (2010) |
Revision as of 21:45, 17 October 2010
Steven T. Murray (born 7 October 1943) is an American translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He has worked under the pseudonyms Reg Keeland and McKinley Burnett when edited into UK English. He translated the bestselling Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson, three crime novels and two African novels by Henning Mankell, three psychological suspense novels by Karin Alvtegen, as well as works by many other authors. In 2001 he won the Gold Dagger Award in the UK for his translation of Sidetracked by Henning Mankell, and in 2009 the Anthony Award for Best First Novel for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
Murray was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Oakland, Manila, Mexico City, and San Diego. He attended Stanford University on a General Motors National Scholarship and made his first trip to Europe in 1963 to study at Stanford-in-Germany in Beutelsbach near Stuttgart. He returned to Europe the next year with the Scandinavian Seminar to study at Krogerup Højskole in Humlebæk, Denmark, and later taught English conversation and American literature at Herning Højskole in Jutland. He received his BA in Creative Writing in 1972 from California State University, Hayward. His first paid published translations, two Norwegian science fiction stories by Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd in an anthology of European SF from DAW Books, for which the authors kindly forfeited their $25 advance, appeared in 1976.
After 7 years working in technical translation, editing, and foreign-language typography, Murray founded Fjord Press and was editor-in-chief from 1981 to 2001 (Berkeley and Seattle), publishing mainly Scandinavian and German fiction in translation and a few American and British titles. He now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he and his wife Tiina Nunnally are both full-time freelance literary translators.
Selected translations
- Daniel by Henning Mankell (from Swedish) (2010)
- The Stonecutter by Camilla Läckberg (from Swedish) (2010)
- The Crusades Trilogy 3: Birth of the Kingdom by Jan Guillou (from Swedish) (2010)
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson (from Swedish) under pseudonym Reg Keeland (2009)
- The Crusades Trilogy 2: The Templar Knight by Jan Guillou (from Swedish) (2009)
- The Preacher by Camilla Läckberg (from Swedish) (2009)
- Shadow by Karin Alvtegen (from Swedish) under pseudonym McKinley Burnett (2009)
- The Crusades Trilogy 1: The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou (from Swedish) (2009)
- The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (from Swedish) under pseudonym Reg Keeland (2009)
- The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (from Swedish) (2008)
- The Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell (from Swedish) (2008)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (from Swedish) under pseudonym Reg Keeland (2008)
- Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba’s Legendary All-Girl Dance Band by Alicia Castro with Ingrid Kummels, US edition (from German and Spanish) (2007)
- Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba’s First All-Girl Dance Band by Alicia Castro with Ingrid Kummels, UK edition (from German and Spanish) (2007)
- Shame by Karin Alvtegen (from Swedish) (2006)
- Betrayal by Karin Alvtegen (from Swedish) (2005)
- A Wealth of Tradition: Jøtul, 1853–2003 by Dag Ove Skjold (from Norwegian) (2003)
- Detective Inspector Huss by Helene Tursten (from Swedish) (2002)
- Like Thunder: A Play by Niels Fredrik Dahl (from Norwegian) (produced 2001)
- The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell (from Swedish) (2000)
- Sidetracked by Henning Mankell (from Swedish) (1999)
- Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (from Swedish) (1997)
- War by Klaus Rifbjerg, with Tiina Nunnally (from Danish) (1995)
- Enemy’s Enemy by Jan Guillou, with Tiina Nunnally under pseudonym Thomas Keeland (from Swedish) (1992)
- Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 2: Apprenticeship by Martin Andersen Nexø, with Tiina Nunnally (from Danish) (1991)
- Another Metamorphosis & Other Fictions by Villy Sørensen, with Tiina Nunnally (from Danish) (1990)
- The Abduction by Mette Newth, with Tiina Nunnally (from Norwegian) (1989)
- Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 1: Childhood by Martin Andersen Nexø (from Danish) (1989)
- Witness to the Future by Klaus Rifbjerg (from Danish) (1987)
- The Sardine Deception by Leif Davidsen, with Tiina Nunnally (from Danish) (1986)
Forthcoming translations
- The Philosopher's Kiss by Peter Prange (from German) (2011)
- The Gallows Bird by Camilla Läckberg (from Swedish) (2011)
- Nephilim by Åsa Schwarz (from Swedish) (2011)
Awards
- Winner, Barry Award for Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade, USA, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2010)
- Shortlisted for Anthony Award, Best Novel, USA, for The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (2010)
- Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2009-2010 published in the UK, for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson (2010)
- Sounds of Crime Award for Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook of 2009, UK, for The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (2010)
- Sounds of Crime Award for Best Abridged Crime Audiobook of 2009, UK, for The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (2010)
- Winner, Anthony Award, Best First Novel, USA, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Shortlisted for Anthony Award, Best Novel, USA, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Winner, Barry Award for Best British Novel published in the USA, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Winner, Macavity Award, Best First Mystery, USA, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2008-2009 published in the UK, for The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2008-2009 published in the UK, for Shadow by Karin Alvtegen (2009)
- Shortlisted for the 2008 Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best First Novel, USA, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Tied with Ian Rankin for the Sounds of Crime Award for Best Abridged Crime Audiobook of 2008, UK, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Galaxy British Book Awards, Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year, UK, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, South Africa, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2008)
- ITV3 Crime Thriller Award, International Author of the Year, UK, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2008)
- Shortlisted for CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2007-2008 published in the UK, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2008)
- Shortlisted for CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2006-2007 published in the UK, for Shame by Karin Alvtegen (2007)
- Winner, CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year published in the UK, for Sidetracked by Henning Mankell (2001)
- Shortlisted for PEN USA Translation Prize for Sidetracked by Henning Mankell (1999)
- Jens Peter Jacobsen Prize from the Limfjord Region Literary Society, Thisted, Denmark, for editing new translations of two classic works by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1994)
- Columbia Translation Center award for Witness to the Future by Klaus Rifbjerg (1985)
References
External links
- See Reg Keeland's blog for current news on Steve's latest publications.