Draft:Ian Giles (translator)
British literary translator
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Ian Giles is a British literary translator of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish into English. He has translated over thirty-five works of fiction and non-fiction, including the August Prize-winning Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Swedish author Andrev Walden.[1][2]
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Other prominent translations include works by Camilla Läckberg, David Lagercrantz, and Søren Sveistrup. He was shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger in 2015 for his translation of Into a Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman,[3] and longlisted for the 2023 Petrona Award for Codename Faust by Gustaf Skördeman.[4]
Having obtained his doctorate in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2018,[5] Ian served as Chair of the Swedish-English Literary Translators Association (2018–2024),[6] and was elected to the committee of the Society of Authors in 2025.[7].
As the current Chair of the Translators Association,[8] he has been a vocal advocate for the importance of human translators, and a prominent commentator on the adoption of generative AI within the industry.[9][10][11][12][13]
Selected translations
- Søren Sveistrup, Hide and Seek (2026, Michael Joseph) - from Danish.
- Ørjan Karlsson, Into The Dark (2026, Orenda Books) - from Norwegian.
- Kjell Espmark, The Nobel Prize in Literature: In Pursuit of Alfred Nobel’s Vision (2025, Swedish Academy) - from Swedish.
- Andrev Walden, Bloody Awful in Different Ways (2025, Fig Tree/ Penguin Books) - from Swedish.
- Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus, Mirage (2025, Hemlock Press) - from Swedish.
- Ørjan Karlsson, Into Thin Air (2025, Orenda Books) - from Norwegian.
- Camilla Läckberg, The Cuckoo (2024, Hemlock Press) - from Swedish.
- Michael Katz Krefeld, Darkness Calls (2023, Podium Publishing) - from Danish.
- Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus, Cult (2023, HarperCollins) - from Swedish
- Arne Dahl, You Are Next (2022, Harvill Secker) - from Swedish.
- Gustaf Skördeman, Codename Faust (2022, Zaffre) - from Swedish.
- Camilla Läckberg, Truth or Dare (2021, HarperCollins) - from Swedish
- Carin Gerhardsen, Black Ice (2021, Penzler Publishers) - from Swedish.
- Nicklas Bendtner and Rune Skyum-Nielsen, Both Sides (2020, Monoray) - from Danish.
- Andreas Norman, The Silent War (2019, Riverrun) - from Swedish.[14]
- Liselotte Roll, Good Girls Don’t Tell (2016, World Editions) - from Swedish.
- Greta Huuva, Nature is My Kitchen 2014, VARDA) - from Swedish.
- Andreas Norman, Into A Raging Blaze (2014, Quercus) - from Swedish.
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