Joan Tate

For the Black Mirror character, see Joan Is Awful.

Joan Tate née Eames (23 September 1922 – 6 June 2000) was a British writer and translator, translating works by many leading Swedish and other Scandinavian language writers into English.[1]

Tate's translations from Swedish include books by Astrid Lindgren, Ingmar Bergman, Britt Ekland, Kerstin Ekman, P C Jersild, Sven Lindqvist, Agneta Pleijel, and the team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.[2][3] She also translated works from Norwegian and Danish, translating a total of around 200 books during her career.

She was a founder member of the Swedish-English Literary Translators' Association (SELTA) and was on the editorial board of the Swedish Book Review.[1][2] She received a translation award from the Swedish Academy and was made an Officer of the Order of the Polar Star.[2]

Her own books, which she continued to write while working as a translator, were mainly for children and young people, and included both fiction and nonfiction.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Thompson, Laurie (7 July 2000). "Obituary: Joan Tate". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Tributes to Joan Tate by SELTA" (PDF). SwedishEnglish.org. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Joan Tate". Granta. Retrieved 30 June 2025.


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