Literary translator since 1978 (Boccaccio, Jonathan L. Howard, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Heller, Zadie Smith, Lawrence Norfolk, Patrick O’Brian, Joseph O’Connor, Umberto Eco, Giuseppet Tomasi di Lampedusa, Carlo Collodi, Dario Fo, Maria Giacobbe, Alberto Moravia, Luciano Marrocu and others into Danish).
Member of the European Jury for the Aristeion Prize for Literary Translation 1994-1995, Chairman 1995, and of the European Jury for the Aristeion Prize for Literature 1996-1997, Chairman 1997; President of the Danish Literature Council (1996-2000); Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School (2004-).
Numerous Danish, Swedish and Italian prizes and awards for translation, writing, historical research, and journalism.