Lucy Moffatt

Lucy Moffatt is an award-winning translator working primarily from Norwegian to English, with a focus on literary projects, both fiction and non-fiction. Recent translations range from vintage crime fiction to a memoir on insomnia. Since translating the Sunday Times bestseller, 'Extraordinary Insects' by conservation biologist, Anne Sverdrup-Thygesen in 2019, she has gone on to translate Sverdrup-Thygeson's second popular science book for adults, 'Tapestries of Life'.

Lucy has also translated/co-translated a number of Mexican documentaries from Spanish to English, including multiple-award-winning "Tempestad" by Tatiana Huezo Sánchez.

In 2014, she won a John Dryden prize for her translation of a text by Hans Herbjørnsrud, "The Skeleton and the Anatomy Book". In 2020 she won NORLA's annual Translator's Award for her non-fiction translation work.