Elsa Thulin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Elsa Thulin

Swedish translator and writer

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1887

Place of Birth: Stockholm City, Sweden

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1960

Profession: writer, translator

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Elsa Thulin

  • Elsa Harriet Thulin (nĂ©e Sachs, born 19 January 1887 in Stockholm, died 29 March 1960 in Stockholm), was a Swedish translator.Thulin went to Wallinska skolan in Stockholm and studied English, German and the Romance languages at Uppsala University, earning her bachelor's degree in 1908.She started translating in her twenties.
  • Her main source language was French; among the works she introduced to Swedish readers were The Plague by Albert Camus, La Symphonie pastorale by AndrĂ© Gide, several books by AndrĂ© Maurois, The Psychology of Art by AndrĂ© Malraux and Wagner by Guy de Pourtalès.
  • She also translated Norwegian (Trygve Gulbranssen, Sigrid Boo), Danish (Ingrid Møller, William Heinesen) and Italian (Luigi Pirandello) authors.She was also a journalist and debater who distinguished herself during World War II by taking a strong anti-Nazi stance.
  • A champion of improving literary translators' working conditions, she led the formation of the Swedish Translators' Association (Swedish: Svenska Ă–versättarförbundet) in 1954 and served as its president until her death.Thulin received the Swedish Academy Translation Award in 1956 but also gave her name to a prize herself, the Elsa Thulin Prize for literary translators, established in 1960.
  • For her contribution to popularizing French culture in Sweden, Thulin was awarded the Ordre des Palmes AcadĂ©miques and the Legion of Honour.
  • The French daily newspaper Le Figaro paid tribute in an obituary after her death.Elsa Thulin married John Thulin in 1910; they had two children: Ebba, born 1911, and Lars, born 1913.

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