At the invitation of the ELTE Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature Swedish Daniel Gustafsson will visit ELTE, where he will give a translation seminar in Swedish and a lecture in English.

Daniel Gustafsson is a Swedish author and literary translator particularly known for translating Hungarian literature into Swedish. He has translated works by Nobel Prize laureate László Krasznahorkai as well as Péter Nádas and Attila Bartis. His work has earned him the Swedish Academy’s Translation Prize in 2018 and the Translation of the Year Award in 2024 for his Swedish translation of Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769.

As an author, he made his debut in 2019 with the novel Odenplan which was nominated for the August Prize. His second novel Fine de Claire was published in 2022. Alongside his writing and translation work, Gustafsson has been involved in literary events and teaches creative writing at HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg.

His work is characterised by a deep interest in the possibilities of language and a commitment to making complex Central European literary works accessible to Swedish readers.

Programme:

• 08.30–10.00: Hur är det att översätta nobelprisbelönt litteratur? / Gustafssons författarskap & översättarseminarium (lecture and translation seminar in Swedish)

• 10.00–11.00: What’s it like to translate Nobel Prize-winning literature? / Gustafsson’s authorship (lecture in English)