Lucy Moffatt

Translates from Norwegian into English

London-born Lucy Moffatt has been translating professionally since the mid-1990s, first from Spanish, later from Norwegian. Since 2017, she has translated 18 Norwegian titles for publishers in the UK and Canada. She has won two John Dryden awards for her translations of Hans Herbjørnsrud (2015 and 2025), and received NORLA’s annual Translator’s Award for her non-fiction work in 2020. She won the ASF's 2025 Wigeland Prize for her translation of an extract from Bjørg Vik's Små nøkler, store rom, Small Keys, Big Rooms.

Translated by Lucy Moffatt

Dag O. Hessen: Jervesporet, Wolverine Tracks, 2025, Greystone Books.

Ole Brodersen: Se for deg et sted, Imagine a Place. 2025, Aye Aye Press.

Sven Elvestad: The Mysterious Foe. 2025, Kabaty Press.

Arild Stubhaug: Stein Rokkan. Fra periferi til sentrum, Stein Rokkan: A Man of Several Worlds, 2024, ECPR Press.

Hilde Østby: Mageboka, My Belly, 2024, Greystone Books

Andreas Tjernshaugen: Reven, Finding the Fox: On the trail of an Enigmatic Animal, 2024, Greystone Books.

Sven Elvestad: Gjennem de tre værelser, Through Three Rooms, April 2023, Kabaty Press

Kristoffer Hatteland Endresen: Litt som oss, The Pig and I, 2023 Greystone Books

Siri Helle: Med berre nevane, Handmade, spring 2022, Granta (co-translated with Kari Dickson)

Are Kalvø: Hyttebok frå helvete, The Hiking Book from Hell, spring 2022, Greystone Books

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson: På naturens skuldre, Tapestries of Life, spring 2021, HarperCollins

Anders Bortne: Søvnløs, Sleepless, 2020, Sandstone Press

Unni Eikeseth: Jakten på stedssansen, Finding Places, 2020, World Scientific Publications

Bjørn Vassnes: Frostens rike, Kingdom of Frost, 2020, Greystone Books

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson: Insektenes planet, Extraordinary Insects, 2019, HarperCollins

Nina Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl: Gleden med skjeden, The Wonder Down Under, 2018, Hodder and Stoughton

Bjørn Berge: Landene som forsvant, Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840-1975, 2017, Thames and Hudson

Stein Riverton: Jernvognen, The Iron Chariot, 2017, Abandoned Bookshop (e-book); Eye and Lightning, 2019 (paperback)