Peter Woltemade

PETER WOLTEMADE is an American-born literary translator who has been based in Copenhagen since 2004 and has lived in Germany and Sweden for several years respectively. After earning a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University, he studied at the University of Freiburg and at Uppsala University. He is the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Graduate Fellowship (Berlin) and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Copenhagen) and is the holder of M.A. degrees in Scandinavian and German and a Ph.D. in medieval German literature from the University of California at Berkeley. His work has appeared in Border Crossing, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Exchanges, K1N, Newfound, Pusteblume, Storm Cellar, The Brooklyn Rail, The Cossack Review, The Literary Review, The Missing Slate, and Wilderness House Literary Review; three of his translations have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His translation of Stefanie Ross’s novel Nemesis was published by AmazonCrossing in 2016. A number of his book translations have been published by Gads Forlag’s Historika imprint, including several biographies by Jens Gunni Busck, Christian IV, Frederik III, Christian V, Frederik IV, Christian VIII, and Frederik VII; Birgitte Louise Peiter Rosenhegn’s Frederik VIII and Queen Lovisa; Rosenborg and Power, Splendour, and Diamonds, museum guides by Peter Kristiansen and Heidi Laura respectively; Kurt Jacobsen’s Haldor Topsøe; and Kurt Jacobsen and Anders Ravn Sørensen’s CBS. His translations of two Swedish novels are forthcoming in 2018. He has worked with translators Shaun Whiteside, Maureen Freely, Sasha Dugdale, Katy Derbyshire, and B. J. Epstein and with authors Kristof Magnusson, Kristina Sandberg, and Julia Butschkow. He tweets at @PeterSWoltemade and can be reached at peter.woltemade@fulbrightmail.org.