Merete Alfsen

Awards

• 1992: Norwegian culture and church department's translator prize for child and youth literature for her translation of John Marsden's So much to tell you
• 1994: Bastian Prize in 1994, for her translation of Virginia Woolf's novel into Norwegian.
• 1997: The Book Club's fiction translator prize
• 2006: Bastian Prize for child and youth literature for her translation of William Nicholson's The Wind Singer
• 2011: Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2011, for translation of A. S. Byatt's novel The Children's Book into Norwegian langue.
• 2016: Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl.