Reg Keeland

Reg Keeland is the pseudonym under which American translator Steven T. Murray (1943-2018) is credited on the English editions of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Murray, born in Berkeley, California, translated from Swedish, Danish, German and Norwegian for more than four decades; he founded the small press Fjord Press and served as its editor-in-chief from 1981 to 2001, and won the UK's Gold Dagger Award in 2001 for his translation of Henning Mankell's Sidetracked. Commissioned in 2005 to translate all three then-unpublished Millennium novels, he completed the work in just thirteen months, but asked to be credited under the Reg Keeland pseudonym after his UK publisher made substantial editorial changes to his translation under a deadline too tight for him to review and approve them -- a step he took to protect his professional reputation for accuracy. Murray lived in New Mexico with his wife and frequent co-translator, Tiina Nunnally. In this catalogue he is credited, under the Reg Keeland byline used on the books themselves, as the translator of all three Stieg Larsson Millennium novels: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.