Receiving their Degrees: (l-r) Mark Safstrom (MA), Anne
Toft Vestegaard (MA),
Margareta Dancus (MA), Kevin Karlin (Ph.D), Gergana May (Ph.D), Professor
Marianne Stecher-Hansen at the microphone. Not pictured: Eric
Sundholm (MA) and Mia Spangenberg (MA)

At its annual graduation ceremony on June 9, the Department bestowed two Doctorates, three Advancements to Candidacy, five Masters
Degrees and twenty-four Bachelors Degrees. The Department also
awarded over $20,000 in scholarships to students in Scandinavian
and Baltic studies. Full list of graduates.

2003 graduate Tara Chace’s translation of Per Nilsson’s You & You & You from the Swedish has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adult Fiction.

The Goldwater Scholarship Program was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Four UW students have been selected for the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Awards, including Danish major Sean Hughes (second from right, above.) The 2006 Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,081 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by colleges and universities nationwide.

No Longer Lost in Translation

The Boston Globe praises Tiina Nunnaly’s translation of Kristin Lavransdatter.

Nunnally, an affiliate faculty member, recently received the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and teaches occasional translation courses in the department.

BirgittaSteene, Professor Emerita in Department and in Cinema Studies, has just published an exhaustive guide to Bergman’s life and work.

Following Bergman’s career as a writer, filmmaker and theatre director, the guide combines detailed chronological surveys of his film and theatrical work with annotated lists of interviews and writings on Bergman.

A native of Sweden, Steene is the author of several books and articleson film and drama. She is the former president of the International Association of Scandinavian Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.

The History Channel broadcast a new program featuring Professor Terje Leiren on November 22, 2005. The program, part of a new series called “The BIG BUILD,” asks what it takes to construct a Viking ship and presents the Viking past as an exciting “how to” project. In Anacortes, Washington, a half-size replica of the Gokstad ship takes shape under the supervision of Boatwright Jay Smith who leads a team of specialist using authentic Viking tools and techniques. Dr. Terje Leiren of the University of Washington provides historical commentary on the Viking age helping to put the project into historical context. In the end, the ship is given away to a local Society for Creative Anachonism from Tacoma.

The University of Washington Libraries and Department of Scandinavian Studies join together in recognition of Norway’s year-long celebration of its 100 years of independence.

Graduate of the department and Affiliate Assistant Professor Paul Norlen, Ph.D. has been awarded the 25th annual American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize for his English rendition of portions of A Toast to Your Ashes: The Life of the Poet Bellman from Beginning to End by the Swedish author Ernst Brunner.

The committee praised him for being “always accurate and extremely knowledgeable” and said “the English version is as entertainingand gripping as the Swedish original.” Mr. Norlen’s translation already has a committed publisher, Canongate in Edinburgh, Scotland.