Ebba Segerberg

Ebba Segerberg is an academic and translator, noted for her translations of Swedish literature into English.

Segerberg is a Director of Communications at Washington University in St. Louis and an Adjunct Lecturer in Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, Department of Scandinavian in 1999. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish Writers.

Selected Bibliography

Translator

Title	Author	Publication year	Translation published
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist	2004	2008
One Step Behind	Henning Mankell	1997	2003
Firewall		1998	2002
Before the Frost		2002	2004
Langl	Kjell Westö	2002	2006
The Princess of Burundi	Kjell Eriksson	2002	2006
The Cruel Stars of the Night		2004	2008

Other Publications

• Nostalgia, Narrative, and Modernity in Swedish Silent Cinema (author), Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, 1999 OCLC 892826827

Translation Quirks

Ms Segerberg has a fondness for the phrase "get ahold of". For example, in "The Dogs of Riga", "And tell somebody to get ahold of the patrol officer". It also occurs in "Before The Frost". It is unclear whether she is responsible for its constant recurrence in the Wallander series subtitling.

It also appears in her Kjell Eriksson translations "Since then it lay working in her subconscious but she couldn't get ahold of the loose thread" [Sedan dess låg den och arbetade i hennes undermedvetna men hon kunde omöjligen få fatt i den lösa trådänden]. Ironically, Google Translate produces the more acceptable "get hold of" for this passage.

Ditto in John Ajvide Lindqvist, "He threw her off, twisted around, and both of them tried to get ahold of the other".