Philip Roughton

Philip Roughton is an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature, currently residing in Reykjavík. He earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with specialties in medieval Icelandic, medieval Chnese, and Latin literature, and wrote his dissertation on medieval Icelandic translations of saints' and apostles' lives. He has taught modern and world literature at CU-Boulder, and medieval literature at the University of Iceland. His translations include works by many of Iceland's best-known writers, including the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Bergsveinn Birgisson, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, and others. He was recently awarded the 2015 American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Competition Prize, for his translation of Halldór Laxness' novel Gerpla (Wayward Heroes).