Chris Moseley

Christopher Moseley is a translator from Estonian, Latvian, Finnish and the Scandinavian languages. Originally from Australia, he originally came to Britain to study Scandinavian languages in 1974, but since then his main interests have slipped eastwards, to Finland and the Baltic countries. While working as a journalist and translator specialising in Baltic affairs at BBC Monitoring, Caversham, he completed an M.Phil., also at SSEES, on the dying Livonian language of Latvia – a close relative of Estonian. After nineteen years’ service at the BBC, he became a freelance translator and editor in 2005. He is the author of Colloquial Estonian and co-author of Colloquial Latvian for Routledge. He has translated novels from Estonian by Indrek Hargla, Andrus Kivirähk, Ilmar Taska, and most recently A.H. Tammsaare (for Vagabond Voices).