Edna H. Hong’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Kierkegaard translator
A.K.A. Edna Hatlestad Hong, Edna Hatlestad
Was Writer 
Translator 
Poet 
From United States of America 
Type Literature 
Gender female
Birth 28 January 1913, Neillsville, United States of America
Death 3 April 2007, Minnesota, United States of America
(aged 94 years)
Star sign Aquarius

Edna  Hong (translator) (born Edna Hatlestad 28 Jan. 1913 – 3 Apr. 2007) was a Kierkegaard translator. Together with her husband Howard Hong, she earned recognition in the world of philosophical translation, in particular vis-à-vis the translation from Danish to English of the works of  Søren Kierkegaard. She received a National Book Award for translating Volume 1 of  Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers. The couple also founded a Kierkegaard library at St. Olaf based on their own collection of his work.

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