Translator, Critic

Niels Brunse was born in 1949 and grew up in Helsingør, Denmark (Shakespeare’s Elsinore). He has been a literary translator for almost fifty years, dealing mainly with English, German and Russian literature, and has translated more than 230 books, plays and radio features. He is currently working on a new Danish version of all of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets; 30 plays and about a third of the sonnets have been completed by now.

He has also written novels, short stories, plays and poetry of his own, a small book on Shakespeare for Danish readers, and literary reviews for Danish newspapers. He has been awarded several literary prizes, including the life-long grant from the Danish Arts Foundation, the Thornton Niven Wilder Award (Columbia University, New York), and the Übersetzerpreis der Kunststiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany). In 2011, he was appointed Knight of the Order of Dannebrog.

Website: www.nielsbrunse.dk