Don Bartlett

Don Bartlett has translated novels by many Danish and Norwegian authors, including Per Petterson, Roy Jacobsen, Ida Jessen, Jo Nesbo, and Gunnar Staalesen. He is the translator of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series. He lives with his family in Norfolk, England.

Extras

• Don Bartlett talks about Norwegian literature and translation in an interview for World Literature Today.
• Read Don Bartlett discuss translating Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series in interviews for The Paris Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books. 
• Don Bartlett describes translating crime fiction writer Gunnar Staalesen for The Book Trail, and in Euro Crime talks about translating other Scandinavian crime writers.