About
Paul is a working-class translator from Danish and Norwegian to English. Acclaimed translations include Lars Mytting’s The Sixteen Trees of the Somme and Christina Hesselholdt’s Vivian. His work with Foreign Affairs theatre company, winner of the Stage International Award 2026, has helped make collaboration a key part of his practice. As well as numerous co-translations, he engages in a range of mentorship and translator training programmes. Paul serves on the committee of the UK Translators Association as their CEATL delegate, and teaches Danish, theatre and translation at a number of UK institutions. Originally from Vancouver, Paul now calls London home.
Featured Work
Vivian
With Vivian, her second novel to be published in English, Christina Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American photographer Vivian Maier (1926–2009), whose unique body of work only reached the public by chance. On the surface, Vivian Maier lived a quiet life, working as a nanny for bourgeois families in Chicago and New York. And yet, over the course of four decades, she took more than 150,000 photos, most of them with Rolleiflex cameras. The pictures were discovered in an auction shortly before she died, impoverished and feasibly very lonely. Who was this outsider artist, and why did she remain in the shadows her whole life? In this playful, polyphonic novel, we watch Vivian grow up in a severely dysfunctional family in New York and Champsaur in France, and we follow her later life as a nanny and street photographer in Chicago. A meditation on art, madness and identity, Vivian is a brilliant novel by Denmark’s most inventive and radical novelist.
