About: Verena Reichel

Verena Reichel (born in Grimma, Saxony, 21 March 1945) is a German literary translator. Bilingual from childhood, she later studied Scandinavian literature, German literature, and theater. Since 1972, she has worked as a freelance translator from Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. She has published more than 60 volumes of translations from Swedish, including three by Ingmar Bergman, six by Henning Mankell, and four each by Märta Tikkanen and Torgny Lindgren. Especially notable are her translations of Lars Gustafsson: eighteen novels, three co-authored works, and poems gathered in Ein Vormittag in Schweden (1998; co-translators were Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Hanns Grössel; Reichel edited the volume and wrote an afterword) and in Jahrhunderte und Minuten (2009; with the same co-translators).