Nora Pröfrock

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Nora Pröfrock (* 1981 in Duisburg ) is a German translator . She translates from Norwegian , Swedish , English and Danish .

Life

Nora Pröfrock studied Scandinavian Studies , Comparative Literature and English Studies in Bonn , Trondheim and Bergen from 2001 to 2007 . She graduated with a Magistra Artium . From 2004 to 2007 he studied German as a foreign language at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Pröfrock then worked for two years in Bonn as a freelance specialist translator and lecturer for German as a foreign language, before teaching Norwegian at the Volkshochschule Rhein-Sieg from 2009 to 2010. After completing a postgraduate course in literary translation from English at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , she has been working as a freelance literary translator since September 2011. She translates fiction, children's and youth literature as well as non-fiction books.

She is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, and the Norwegian Association of Authors and Translators for Non-Fiction.

Pröfrock lives in Bergen, Norway.

Translations (selection)

  • Mette Finderup: Emmy , 7 volumes. Girl It, Munich, 2012–2014.
  • Malin Stehn: Starlight , 3 volumes. Girl It, Munich, 2013–2014.
  • Isaac Asimov : Shakespeare's world: what you need to know to understand Shakespeare (Asimov's guide to Shakespeare) . Alexander-Verlag, Berlin, 2014.
  • Jens Østergaard: In the light of evil (Drengen og dæmonen) . LYX Egmont, Cologne, 2014.
  • Leonora Christina Skov: The first lover (Førsteelskeren) . btb, Munich, 2014.
  • Jens Østergaard: Until the end of their days (Dragen, sangeren, helten) . LYX Egmont, Cologne, 2014.
  • Dorte Roholte: At your own risk (På eget ansvar) . Girl It, Munich, 2014.
  • Jens Østergaard: White pain (Ritualet) . LYX Egmont, Cologne, 2015.
  • Liv Marit Weberg: Fortunately nobody needs me (luckily nobody needs me) . Fischer Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main, 2016.
  • Roald Kaldestad: Forever Friends (To hundre og sekstini dagar) . Berlin, Kleine Gestalten , 2016.
  • Åsne Seierstad : One of us: the story of a mass murderer (En av oss) . Kein & Aber, Zurich, Berlin, 2016. (Co-translation with Frank Zuber )
  • Åsne Seierstad: Two sisters: under the spell of jihad (To søstre) . No & But, Zurich, Berlin, 2017.
  • Jonas Moström : Domino death (domino dodes) . Ullstein, Berlin, 2017. (Co-translation with Dagmar Missfeldt )
  • Ingrid Ovedie Volden: Infinitely times infinitely times more (Alt som teller) . Thienemann, Stuttgart, 2018.
  • Leonora Christina Skov: The island house (Hvor intet bryder vinden) . btb, Munich, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Vita . In: nora-proefrock.de, accessed on July 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Profrock, Nora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg , Germany