Grethe Fatima Syéd

Grethe Fatima Syéd (b 1968, Norway) is a writer, translator and academic, specialising in the work of Olav Duun.

After completing a PhD on Duun’s work at the University of Bergen, she published Olav Duun. Kunsten, døden og kjærlighetens dikter in 2015. As a translator, Syéd has produced Norwegian versions of work by several of the 20th century’s most influential English-language writers, including Seamus Heaney, Gertrude Stein and Henry James.

Syéd is also chair of the Torborg Nedreaas Association, and has published an essay book about this well-known author entitled En sommer med Nedreaas (2019).