diff --git a/docs/ref/conf.rst b/docs/ref/conf.rst
index b47fbb8cf..de8b628d4 100644
--- a/docs/ref/conf.rst
+++ b/docs/ref/conf.rst
@@ -416,6 +416,20 @@ You may use a different named export:
 
 .. config:: sourceLocale
 
+In some advanced cases you may also need to change the module from which
+`Trans` is imported. To do that, pass an object to `runtimeConfigModule`:
+
+.. code-block:: jsx
+
+   // If you import `i18n` object from custom module like this:
+   import { Trans, i18n } from "./custom-config"
+
+   // ... then add following line to Lingui configuration:
+   // "runtimeConfigModule": {
+   //   i18n: ["./custom-config", "i18n"],
+   //   Trans: ["./custom-config", "Trans"]
+   // }
+
 sourceLocale
 ------------
 
diff --git a/packages/conf/src/index.ts b/packages/conf/src/index.ts
index 9c09082b5..335f3fb01 100644
--- a/packages/conf/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/conf/src/index.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ type DefaultLocaleObject = {
 }
 export type FallbackLocales = LocaleObject | DefaultLocaleObject | false
 
+type ModuleSource = [string, string?];
+
 export type LinguiConfig = {
   catalogs: CatalogConfig[]
   compileNamespace: string
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ export type LinguiConfig = {
   orderBy: OrderBy
   pseudoLocale: string
   rootDir: string
-  runtimeConfigModule: [string, string?]
+  runtimeConfigModule: ModuleSource | {[symbolName: string]: ModuleSource},
   sourceLocale: string
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/macro/src/index.ts b/packages/macro/src/index.ts
index 8d59470b2..5163c7f66 100644
--- a/packages/macro/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/macro/src/index.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,27 @@ import MacroJS from "./macroJs"
 import MacroJSX from "./macroJsx"
 
 const config = getConfig({ configPath: process.env.LINGUI_CONFIG })
-const [i18nImportModule, i18nImportName = "i18n"] = config.runtimeConfigModule
+
+const getSymbolSource = (name: string) => {
+  if (Array.isArray(config.runtimeConfigModule)) {
+    if (name === "i18n") {
+      return config.runtimeConfigModule
+    } else {
+      return ["@lingui/react", name]
+    }
+  } else {
+    if (
+      Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(config.runtimeConfigModule, name)
+    ) {
+      return config.runtimeConfigModule[name]
+    } else {
+      return ["@lingui/react", name]
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+const [i18nImportModule, i18nImportName = "i18n"] = getSymbolSource("i18n")
+const [TransImportModule, TransImportName = "Trans"] = getSymbolSource("Trans")
 
 function macro({ references, state, babel }) {
   const jsxNodes = []
@@ -47,7 +67,7 @@ function macro({ references, state, babel }) {
   }
 
   if (jsxNodes.length) {
-    addImport(babel, state, "@lingui/react", "Trans")
+    addImport(babel, state, TransImportModule, TransImportName)
   }
 
   if (process.env.LINGUI_EXTRACT === "1") {
@@ -61,7 +81,8 @@ function addImport(babel, state, module, importName) {
   const { types: t } = babel
 
   const linguiImport = state.file.path.node.body.find(
-    (importNode) =>t.isImportDeclaration(importNode) &&
+    (importNode) =>
+      t.isImportDeclaration(importNode) &&
       importNode.source.value === module &&
       // https://github.com/lingui/js-lingui/issues/777
       importNode.importKind !== "type"