Steven T. Murray

Steven T. Murray (born 7 October 1943) is an American translator from Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and German. He sometimes works under the pseudonym Reg Keeland when edited into UK English. He has translated the bestselling Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson, three crime novels and two African novels by Henning Mankell, three psychological suspense novels by Karin Alvtegen, and works by many other authors. In 2001 he won the Gold Dagger Award in the UK for his translation of Sidetracked by Henning Mankell. Murray was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Oakland, Manila, Mexico City, and San Diego. He attended Stanford University on a General Motors National Scholarship and made his first trip to Europe in 1963 to study at Stanford-in-Germany in Beutelsbach near Stuttgart. He returned to Europe the next year with the Scandinavian Seminar to study at Krogerup Højskole in Humlebæk, Denmark, and later taught English conversation and American literature at Herning Højskole in Jutland. He received his BA in Creative Writing in 1972 from California State University, Hayward. His first published translations, two Norwegian science fiction stories in an anthology of European SF, appeared in 1976. After 7 years working in technical translation, editing, and foreign-language typography, Murray founded Fjord Press and was editor-in-chief from 1981 to 2001 (Berkeley and Seattle), publishing mainly Scandinavian and German fiction in translation and a few American titles. He now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he and his wife Tiina Nunnally are both full-time freelance literary translators. wikipedia entry