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Caroline Waight



Caroline Waight is a literary translator with nearly a decade of experience in the industry, working from Danish and German. She translates both fiction and non-fiction, with recent publications including The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup (Michael Joseph, 2019), A Short History of Humanity by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe (Penguin Random House, 2021) and Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann (Sceptre, 2019). She was the 2014 winner of the Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation.

Average rating: 4.13 · 59,205 ratings · 7,253 reviews · 27 distinct works
The Chestnut Man

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4.21 avg rating — 83,812 ratings — published 2019 — 32 editions
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Brightly Shining

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4.03 avg rating — 12,727 ratings — published 2021 — 40 editions
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Locked In (Department Q, #10)

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4.18 avg rating — 8,445 ratings — published 2023 — 45 editions
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The Art of the Good Life

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Eleven Percent

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3.53 avg rating — 6,109 ratings — published 2022 — 17 editions
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Agatha (Literature in Trans...

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3.56 avg rating — 5,325 ratings — published 2017 — 50 editions
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Money to Burn

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3.81 avg rating — 3,537 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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The LEGO Story: How a Littl...

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3.86 avg rating — 2,863 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
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4.24 avg rating — 1,909 ratings — published 2014 — 25 editions
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