Olivia Lasky is an Oslo-based translator and editor specializing in Norwegian to English literary translations. She also translates from North Sámi, Swedish, and Danish.
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she received an M.A. in Scandinavian Studies (emphasis on Sámi/Indigenous peoples of the Arctic) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.A.s in Scandinavian Studies and English Literature from the University of California-Berkeley. The recipient of several translation awards, she was a mentee in the American Literary Translators Association Emerging Translator Mentorship Program in 2020 and served on the editorial staff of Tidsskriftet Mellom, a Norwegian literary journal focused on works in translation, from 2019 to 2023.
Her work has been published in Harper’s Magazine, Words Without Borders, The Southern Review, Two Lines Journal, and The Georgia Review.
For further details visit: olivialasky.com.
Translated by Olivia Lasky
Malin Falch
:
Nordlys 3/4
,
Nordlys: Book 2,
2026,
Inklore (Penguin Random House)
Thorvald Steen
:
Påklederen
,
The Valet,
2026,
Seagull Books
Malin Falch
:
Nordlys 1/2
,
Nordlys: Book 1,
2025,
Inklore (Penguin Random House)
Marit Kirsten Anti Gaup
:
Čoalkkehii uksii!
,
Noen banket på døra,
2024,
Davvi girji
– Co‑translator: Marit Kirsten Anti Gaup
Lars Henrik Eriksen
:
Oppfinneren, bok 2: Skrotnissens hemmelighet
,
The Inventor Book 2: The Secret of the Scrap Goblin,
2024,
Papercutz
Kjersti Herland Johnsen
:
Jul på Himmelfjell hotell
,
Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge,
2024,
HarperVia
Edel Marit Gaino
:
Dološ baldonnasat
,
Ancient Ghosts,
2022,
Inhabit Education Books
– Co‑translator: Lea Simma
Marianne Kaurin
:
Syden
,
Our Own Little Paradise,
2022,
Arctis Books
Lisa Aisato
:
Livet - illustrert
,
All the Colors of Life,
2021,
Arctis Books
Anja Røyne
:
Menneskets grunnstoffer
,
The Elements We Live By,
2020,
The Experiment
Lene Wold
:
Ære være mine døtre
,
Inside an Honor Killing,
2019,
Greystone Books