Swedish Academy Intepretation Award

Carmen Giorgetti Cima is the 2011 recipient of the Swedish Academy Award for interpretation. This prize, established in 1965, is awarded in recognition of valuable intepretation of Swedish literature to a foreign language. The award sum is SEK 60,000.

Carmen Giorgetti Cima is a translator. She was born in 1954 and lives in Varese, Italy. She received her PhD in Scandinavian languages at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 1977. In 1981 she was a guest researcher at Stockholm University, and over the years she has participated in a number of seminars in Sweden. She has also hosted radio programs on Swedish literature in Italy and Switzerland, and is the translator of numerous articles for Italian periodicals.

Carmen Giorgetti Cima has translated works by a large number of authors from Swedish into Italian, including Ingmar Bergman, Stig Claesson, Stig Dagerman, Kerstin Ekman, Per Olov Enquist, Lars Gustafsson, Olof Lagercrantz, Pär Lagerkvist, Stieg Larsson, Torgny Lindgren, Håkan Nesser, Agneta Pleijel, Hjalmar Söderberg and Carl-Henning Wijkmark

Recent recipients of this award were: 2006 Daniela Marcheschi, 2007 Marina Torres de Uriz, 2008 Sarah Death, 2009 Peter Graves and 2010 Zita Mazeikaite.

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