I will be visiting the conference with colleagues from the Norwegian non-fiction writers and translators association (NFF). The association has approximately 5500 members, 500 of whom are translators. The Norwegian delegates at ITI 2015 are from the translators’ sub-committee. We organise our own conferences and are always interested in new ideas and interesting topics.

The committee members regularly visit conferences in the Nordic countries, and NFF was well represented at FIT’s world congress in Berlin last summer. We were also present at the Nordic Translation Conference in Norwich in 2013.

I go to England regularly since my wife is a Londoner, but this will be my first visit to Newcastle (the trip will also include stop offs in Sheffield and Manchester). As a student I spent two years at the University of Surrey, taking an MA in Translation Studies. Since then I have been a full-time translator in Oslo. (I am also a trained public service interpreter, but I haven’t actually worked as one.)

I spent several years translating for the IT industry before gradually moving on to translating non-fiction books. After nearly 25 years as a freelance translator I started applying for jobs in the public sector. I spent two years at the Norwegian National Library and currently I’m working at the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, translating and revising EEA documents.