Joan Tate née Eames was a British writer and translator, translating works by many leading Swedish and other Scandinavian language writers into English.
Occupation
translator, writer
Citizenship
United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Joan Tate née Eames (23 September 1922 – 6 June 2000) was a prolific author and translator, translating works by many leading Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finnish writers into English.
Alongside her own fiction and nonfiction writing, Tate's translations from the 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. She also translated works from Norwegian and Danish, translating a total of around 200 books during her career.
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Obituary and biography
1922 births
2000 deaths
Swedish–English translators
Danish–English translators
Norwegian–English translators
20th-century translators
