Jackie Smith

Award-winning translator from German and French
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Translator
Available for:
Collaboration, Reader reports, Translation
Translates from:
French, German
Translates to:
English
Available for (translation):
Avant garde, Children's books, Crime fiction, Fantasy, Feel-good, Horror, Humour, Literary fiction, Narrative non-fiction, Non-fiction, Science fiction, Voice-driven fiction, YA books

Award-winning translator of fiction and non-fiction working from German and French into English. Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translation Prize 2021, the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the 2021 TA First Translation Prize for my translation of ‘An Inventory of Losses’ by Judith Schalansky, which was also longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 and the National Book Awards 2021. Winner of the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize 2017. My translation of ‘Sunlight Hours’ by Caroline Caugant was published in summer 2020.