Swedish Academy’s Interpretation Prize
Mudite Treimane and Sofiya Volkovetska awarded the Swedish Academy’s Interpretation Prize for 2024. The prize is awarded for valuable interpretation of Swedish fiction into foreign languages.
The translator Mudite Treimane, born 1948, lives in Riga, Latvia. She translates from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and English. From Swedish, she has translated around 100 books into Latvian, primarily children's books, including about 20 titles by Astrid Lindgren. Treimane has also worked for Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, and she has taught Swedish at the university in Riga.
The translator Sofiya Volkovetska, born 1987, lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She translates from Swedish into Ukrainian. She studied international relations with Swedish as her first language at Ivan Franko University in Lviv and Scandinavian studies at Mälardalen University. Among the Swedish authors Volkovetska has translated into Ukrainian are Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Carola Hansson, Ingmar Bergman, Per Olov Enquist, Sara Stridsberg, Fredrik Backman, Agneta Pleijel, and Majgull Axelsson.
The prize amount is 60,000 Swedish kronor each (about 5 100 Euros).
Recipients of the prize in recent years are: Justyna Czechowska and Carmen Montes Cano (2023), Marianne Ségol-Samoy and Željka Černok (2022), Gisela Kosubek and David McDuff (2021), Katia de Marco (2020), Lukas Dettwiler (2019).
Collage: Swedish Academy. Mudite Treimane, photo: Edijs Palens. Sofiya Volkovetska, photo: Olena Kravtsova.