Alice E. Olsson is a literary translator, writer, and editor working across Swedish and English. She has served as the Cultural Affairs Adviser at the Embassy of Sweden in London and is the recipient of a fellowship as well as multiple grants from the Swedish Arts Council. She has been shortlisted for the 2020 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize and the 2023 Bernard Shaw Prize.
Alice E. Olsson
Biography
Awards
- Shortlisted for the 2017 August Prize, Best Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- 2020 USBBY Outstanding International Books List
- Shortlisted for the 2020 UKLA Book Awards
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Bernard Shaw Prize
- Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction





