Thomas Teal

Thomas Teal is a translator, known for his translations of over 20 books from Swedish into English. He won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award in fiction for his translation The True Deceiver of Tove Jansson's 1982 novel Den ärliga bedragaren, and the Bernard Shaw Translation prize twice for other works by Jansson.

Biography

Thomas Teal is a translator from Swedish into English. In the 1960s he lived in Finland, meeting the artist and author Tove Jansson; he has translated six of her books. Later he moved to Massachusetts.

Awards and distinctions

Teal won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award in fiction for his translation The True Deceiver of Tove Jansson's 1982 novel Den ärliga bedragaren. He won the Bernard Shaw Translation prize twice for other works by Jansson, including Fair Play (the 1989 novel Rent Spel).

The Scottish novelist Ali Smith praises Teal's English translation of Jansson's The Summer Book as "original and stunning".

Translations

Teal's translations include:

Tove Jansson's books
Other authors' books

References

  1. 1 2 "Thomas Teal". Granta. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Thomas Teal". New York Review Books. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
  3. ↑ "Best Translated Book Award 2011". Books from Finland. 13 May 2011.
  4. ↑ Smith, Ali (12 July 2003). "The Summer Book by Tove Jansson". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ Jansson, Tove (2012) [1978, as Dockskåpet och andra berättelser]. Art in Nature. Sort of Books.
  6. ↑ Nilsson, Birgit (1981). Birgit Nilsson: My Memoirs in Pictures. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385148351.