The Swedish-English Literary Translators’ Association

Anna Paterson

House of Glack
Daviot
Aberdeenshire

AB51 0JE

Tel.: +4407808712347

E-Mail: patersonanna@hotmail.com

Website: under reconstruction

Dr Anna Paterson has degrees in medicine and medical sciences from Lund (Sweden) and London. Until her retirement ten years ago, she worked as a medical academic, specialising in experimental and clinical neuroscience. Apart from honorary medical teaching and research consultancies, Anna is now fully engaged in a second career as a writer and award-winning translator from the Germanic languages into English (16 books; published in UK, USA and Australia). Her writing has focused on literary criticism, with emphasis on the relationship between literature and politics; she recently undertook to serve as the reviews editor for Swedish Book Review. Her 2002 book on the flawed green policies in her homeland, Scotland, is also a study of its literature and landscape. Currently, she is now working on a book with the provisional title Romantics at heart? Nature and politics in northern Europe, and also on a translation from a Norwegian work of child psychology, Barn og unge i psykoterapi II - Terapeutiske fremgangsmåter og forandring, eds. Haavind, H. and Øvreeide, H.