Blicher, Steen Steensen

Paula Hostrup-Jessen was born in London in 1930, where she studied medicine. After moving to Denmark in 1963, shehas worked as a freelance translator. Several of her translations of nineteenth-century and contemporary Danish classics have appeared in Britian and the USA. In 1990 she was awarded the Danish Writers Association's prize for literary translation. In 1996 she was awarded the Blicher Prize.