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Hazel Evans

Hazel Evans (b. 1994) is an artist, writer, and literary translator based near Aarhus, Denmark. She translates Puk Qvortrup, Glenn Bech, and Shekufe Tadayoni Heiberg, among others. In 2025, she received the Inger and Jens Bruun Translation Prize and the John Dryden Translation Prize, and was shortlisted for the ALTA First Translation Prize. Besides translation, she is currently working on a bilingual novel project. 

Articles by Hazel Evans

Visiting My Parents by Lee Langvad, trans. by Hazel Evans
In this excerpt from Lee Langvad's novel My Interpreter – translated from Danish by Hazel Evans – an adoptee narrator who lives in Denmark goes for a meal at her biological family's home in South Korea. During the visit, an interpreter must translate between her and her parents. The resulting (mis)understandings, beats, and silences manifest physically in the text's form.
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