Ann Henning Jocelyn Author & Translator

Ann Henning Jocelyn gave up a promising academic career in her native Sweden for work in the London theatre. Then, after marrying the Earl of Roden, she settled in the West of Ireland, at the beautiful Doonreagan Estate, where Ted Hughes once recorded “a warm flow of inspiration” that brought forth some of his best loved poems. Over the decades, Jocelyn has written a large number of best-selling books and stage plays, published and produced in many parts of the world. She is also well established as a literary translator. Initially, she worked into Swedish, translating authors such as Ruth Rendell and Novel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Nowadays she specializes in English versions of Swedish and Norwegian plays by Henning Mankell, Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse, Sara Stridsberg, and others. Her English versions of Swedish opera and musicals have also been much appreciated. One of her favourite commissions was to spend several months sequestered with Ingrid Bergman, helping her with research and translation of the film star’s biography, My Life.