Eva Apelqvist

Eva Apelqvist has been working as a Swedish translator for more than twenty years. She grew up in Sweden and now lives in Minnesota. She recently translated the young adult novel Fire From the Sky, written by Moa Backe Åstot, which was name a Printz Honor Book (only the second translated book to have received this honor), was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize, and was named one of the best young adult books of the year by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center. She is also a published children’s author in Sweden.