Laura Cangemi, translator from Swedish, has brought many of the greatest voices of Swedish literature to Italy, so much so that she received the Sweden in Italy Promoter Award from the Italy-Sweden Chamber of Commerce and the Swedish Academy Award for the introduction of Swedish culture abroad. After graduating in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Milan, he signed the translation of the first title published by the fledgling publishing house Iperborea in 1988.
Since then, she has translated more than 200 books from Swedish, English and Norwegian for the most important Italian publishing houses. She specialises in translating children’s books and has held courses on children’s translation promoted by the Swedish Arts Council. Awards for her translations include the IBBY Honour List and the Natur & Kultur Foundation’s Translation Prize, awarded by the Swedish Academy.
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