Anna Compton

Translator from German to English
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Translator
Available for:
Collaboration, Festivals and other events, Live readings and performances, Proofreading, Reader reports, Translation
Translates from:
German
Translates to:
English
Available for (translation):
Corporate, Crime fiction, Feel-good, Legal, Literary fiction, Narrative non-fiction, Non-fiction

I have over 10 years of commercial translation experience, specialising in law, finance, and creative text types such as websites and social media posts.

I also translate literary prose and am available for sample translations and reader’s reports. I am particularly interested in Austrian literature, as well as crime, Cold War era and historical fiction.

In 2025, I completed an internship with New Books in German where I supported the selection of a shortlist of contemporary German-language fiction and non-fiction and conducted interviews with translators and publishers, some of which I translated from German to appear on the website. I also regularly write reader’s reports for New Books in German.

I recently worked with a group of other translators to complete a sample from Jana Volkmann’s ‘Der beste Tag seit langem’.

I have attended the Bristol Translates and British Centre for Literary Translation summer schools and have an MA in Translation from the University of Bristol.