Peter Graves

Peter Graves is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. Born in the Rhondda in 1942, he studied German and Swedish at the University of Aberdeen before lecturing in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aberdeen and at the University of Edinburgh. Since retiring in 2008 he has been a translator of literature and history. Among his translations are retranslations of Swedish classics by August Strindberg and Selma Lagerlöf; translations of contemporary novels such as Peter Fröberg Idling’s Song for an Approaching Storm (Pushkin Press, 2014) and Lars Sund’s A Happy Little Island (Vagabond Voices, 2016); works of history such as Peter Englund’s The Beauty and the Sorrow (Vintage, 2012); and several books for young people, for instance, Jakob Wegelius’s The Murderer’s Ape (Pushkin Press, 2017). He has received a number of prizes and commendations for his work.