Laurie Thompson

Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English. He is the former editor (1983-2002) of the Swedish Book Review, and former lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Bibliography

*"The Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser, 2008
*"Kennedy's Brain, by Henning Mankell, 2007
*"The Return" by Håkan Nesser, 2007
*"Frozen Tracks" by Åke Edwardson, 2007
*"Shadows in the twilight" by Henning Mankell, 2007
*"Borkmann's Point" by Håkan Nesser, 2006
*"The Man Who Smiled" by Henning Mankell, 2006
*"Depths" by Henning Mankell, 2006
*"Playing, writing, wrestling", six Swedish writers, 2006
*"Never End" by Åke Edwarson, 2006
*"Sun and Shadow" by Åke Edwarson, 2005
*"A bridge to the stars" by Henning Mankell, 2005
*"Art goes underground", Art in the Stockholm metro, 2004
*"I die, but the memory lives on" by Henning Mankell, 2004
*"The Return of the Dancing Master" by Henning Mankell, 2003
*"Popular music from Vittula" by Mikael Niemi, 2003
*"The dogs of Riga" by Henning Mankell, 2001
*"Night watch" by Malin Lindroth, 2000
*"After the campfires" by Per Jorner, 1999
*"The White Lioness" by Henning Mankell, 1998
*"Johnny, my friend" by Peter Pohl, 1991
*"Swedish state cultural policy", 1990
*"Pithy poems" by Stig Dagerman, 1989
*"The black period of Adalbert", 1988
*"Stig Dagerman", 1983
*"Swedish proses", 1982
*"People and places", 1969

Awards

*2003 Swedish Academy award for introduction of Swedish culture abroad.
*1986 Honorary Doctor at Linköping University