Joan Tate (1922–2000)
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Over de Auteur
Joan Tate (September 23, 1922 - June 6, 2000) was a prolific translator, translating works by many leading Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finnish writers into English. Tate's translations from the Swedish include books by Astrid Lindgren, Ingmar Bergman, Britt Ekland, Kerstin Ekman, P C Jersild, Sven toon meer Lindqvist, Agneta Pleijel, and the team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. She also translated works from Norwegian and Danish, for a total of around 200 books during her career. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Joan Tate
Wild Martin, and, The Crow 1 exemplaar
The Silver Grill and the Next Doors 1 exemplaar
The Gobblydock 1 exemplaar
The Wild Boy 1 exemplaar
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Mooie vrouwen aan het water : een roman over soortgenoten (1994) — Vertaler, sommige edities — 124 exemplaren
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- Geboortedatum
- 1922-09-23
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2000-06-06
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Tonbridge, Kent, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Stockholm, Sweden
Shrewsbury, England, UK - Opleiding
- Central Institution for Gymnastics, 1942
- Beroepen
- translator
- Korte biografie
- Joan Tate was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England in 1922. She attended a university in Sweden when war broke out and was unable to return to England until 1942. During that period she became proficient in Swedish and much of her professional work has been as a translator of important Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian authors, translating more than seventy books for children and sixty books for adults. She is best known for her short novels written for adolescents that contain themes such as early marriage, kidnapping, runaways, and contemporary urban life.
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