Laurie Thompson

{{Short description|British academic and translator (1938 – 2015)}}

'''Laurie Thompson''' (26 February 1938 – 8 June 2015) was a British academic and translator,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/books/review/crime-novels-by-henning-mankell-maisie-dobbs-michael-robertson-and-louis-bayard.html|title=CRIME; Mankell's Endgame|last=Stasio|first=Marilyn|date=27 March 2011|work=The New York Times|page=23|accessdate=26 June 2012}}</ref> noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English.

Thompson was born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years. He was the editor of ''Swedish Book Review'' between 1983 and 2002, and a lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the University of Wales, Lampeter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/laurie-thompson-jbmlmglkg7s?region=global|title=Laurie Thompson|work=The Times|date=23 June 2015|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Bibliography== *''Quicksand'' by Henning Mankell, 2016<ref>{{cite news|title=Mankell's parting 'memoir' released next year|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/henning-mankells-parting-memoir-quicksand-announced-316120|accessdate=28 March 2016|publisher=thebookseller.com|date=10 November 2015}}</ref> *''The Man from Beijing'' by Henning Mankell, 2010 *''Italian Shoes'' by Henning Mankell, 2009 *''The Mind's Eye'' by Håkan Nesser, 2008 *''Kennedy's Brain'', by Henning Mankell, 2007 *''The Return'' by Håkan Nesser, 2007 *''Frozen Tracks'' by Åke Edwardson, 2007 *''Shadows in the Twilight'' by Henning Mankell, 2007 *''Borkmann's Point'' by Håkan Nesser, 2006 *''The Man Who Smiled'' by Henning Mankell, 2006 *''Depths'' by Henning Mankell, 2006 *''Playing, Writing, Wrestling'', six Swedish writers, 2006 *''Never End'' by Åke Edwardson, 2006 *''Sun and Shadow'' by Åke Edwardson, 2005 *''A bridge to the stars'' by Henning Mankell, 2005 *''Art Goes Underground'', Art in the Stockholm metro, 2004 *''I Die, but the Memory Lives on'' by Henning Mankell, 2004 *''The Return of the Dancing Master'' by Henning Mankell, 2003 *''Popular Music from Vittula'' by Mikael Niemi, 2003 *''The Dogs of Riga'' by Henning Mankell, 2001 *''Night Watch'' by Malin Lindroth, 2000 *''After the Campfires'' by Per Jorner, 1999 *''The White Lioness'' by Henning Mankell, 1998 *''Johnny, my Friend'' by Peter Pohl, 1991 *''Swedish State Cultural Policy'', 1990 *''Pithy Poems'' by Stig Dagerman, 1989 *''The Black Period of Adalbert'', 1988 *''Stig Dagerman'', 1983 *''Swedish Proses'', 1982 *''People and Places'', 1969

==Awards== *2003 Swedish Academy award for introduction of Swedish culture abroad. *1986 Honorary Doctor at Linköping University

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