John Irons

Translates from Norwegian into English

I was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1942 and studied medieval and modern languages (German, Dutch and French) at Cambridge University, where I subsequently also did a doctorate in poetic imagery on the Dutch poet P.C. Boutens. I have a Scandinavian degree in English and German from Lund and Odense respectively. I taught English at Odense University until 1979, and English and German at Odense College of Education until 2007. I have translated professionally since the mid 1980s, mainly from Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Dutch, although also from German and French. For a fuller impression of what I have translated, please go to the CV at my blogspot .

Translated by John Irons

Four most recent translations from Norwegian:

Vigeland and the Park, Jarle Strømodden, Orfeus, Oslo 2019

The Nazi Universe, Carl Møller Frøland, McFarland & Company Inc.,
Jefferson, North Virginia, USA, 2020

The New National Museum (ed. Audun Vinger)
Orfeus, Oslo, 2022

Duel without End (Mankind’s Battle with Microbes), Stig. S. Frøland, Reaktion Books, London 2022