Geir Pollen

Geir Pollen (b 1953, Norway) is an author and translator resident in Oslo. He has worked as an upper secondary school teacher and chaired the Norwegian Authors’ Union in 2001-05.

He made his literary debut in 1982 with the poetry collection Posteringar i språket, and has since published several more collections as well as novels. Hutchinsons Eftf (1998) was nominated for the Brage and Nordic Council Literature Prizes.

Pollen’s translations include the books of German author W G Sebald, and he received the Critics’ Prize for translating Austerlitz in 2005.

He received the Bastian Prize in 2021 for translating Anton Chekov’s The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories.