Tommy Watz
Tommy Watz (1958 – 2 January 2019) was a Norwegian translator.
He grew up in Sinsen and Bekkelaget, and took his education at Oslo Cathedral School and the University of Oslo, specializing in the Italian language and Italian literature. He taught Italian literature at the University despite not completing a master's degree, but became a prolific translator. He was awarded the Bastian Prize in 2013 for translating Alberto Moravia's Gli indifferenti.[1][2]
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- 1958 births
- 2019 deaths
- Writers from Oslo
- University of Oslo alumni
- University of Oslo faculty
- Translators from Italian
- 20th-century Norwegian translators
- Norwegian writer stubs