Frank Perry (translator)

Frank Perry is an English translator from Brighton, Sussex.

Frank Perry
Born	Frank Gabriel Perry Brighton, Sussex, UK
Occupation	Translator

Career

Perry's work primarily focuses on translating the works of Swedish playwrights, poets and novelists into English. Works translated include the ITV series Marcella, Caterina Pascual Söderbaum's The Oblique Place, Axel Lidén's On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd, and Hans Hayden's Modernism as Institution.

Recognition

• Swedish Academy Prize for the introduction of Swedish literature abroad (2004, won)^[1]
• Göran O Eriksson Prize (sv) for drama translation, Writer's Guild of Sweden (2010, won)^[2][3]
• Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Lina Wolff’s Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs (2017, won)^[4]
• Bernard Shaw Prize for best literary translation from Swedish, The Society of Authors (2019, won)^[5]