Paul Berf

Paul Berf (born 1963 in Frechen near Cologne) studied Scandinavian studies as well as German and English. After working as an editor, he became a freelance translator of literary works from Danish, Swedish, Finland Swedish and Norwegian into German. He translated works by, among others, Henning Mankell, Selma Lagerlöf, Kjell Westö, Aris Fioretos, Fredrik Sjöberg and Karl Ove Knausgård. His work received the Swedish Academy’s Translator’s Prize in 2005 and the Jane Scatcherd Prize in 2014. He is particularly known for translating Knausgård’s six-volume novel cycle “My Struggle” (“Min Kamp”).