Christine Bredenkamp
Year of birth: 1973
Place of birth: Eskilstuna (Sweden)
lives in Berlin
Title of the translation: Leklust
Weyler Förlag: Stockholm, 2006
Wladimir Kaminer: Küche totalitär
Title of the translation: Det totalitära köket
Ersatz: Stockholm, 2008
Charlotte Roche: Feuchtgebiete
Title of the translation: Wåtmarker
W&W: Stockholm, 2008
Christine Bredenkamp was born 1973 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. She studied literature, German and Scandinavian literature at the Lund University. Later she attended a literary translation seminary at the Södertörns University of Stockholm. Since 1999 she has been working as a literary translator from German and English into Swedish.
Among others she translated books of authors like Vladimir Kaminer, Andrea Maria Schenkel and Charlotte Roche. Her newest work is the translation of "Corpus Delicti" by Juli Zeh, which will be published in autumn 2010 for the Swedish publishing house "Weyler".
In May 2010 Christine Bredenkamp spent four weeks at the International Center for Literary Translators in Novi Sad. The residency was supported by the programme "Building Literary Bridges" of the Robert Bosch Foundation, which supports translators of literature.
