Josephine Murray is a graduate of the UEA MA in Literary Translation and a French to English literary translator specialising in children’s literature and culinary texts. Alongside this she is an award-nominated freelance journalist and Secretary to the PETRA-E Network, a pan-European organisation promoting the training of literary translators. She has taught French, German and Spanish in secondary schools, and previously worked as a cook.  

Her translation work includes three illustrated children’s non-fiction books by Manon Bucciarelli for Harper Collins; Nature, Cities and Myths and Anne-Sophie Pic’s food memoir/manifesto Suffusion for Hachette.  

After a Visiting Fellowship in the Archives and Collections at UEA studying the archive of prolific children’s literature translator and translators’ rights activist Patricia Crampton, Josephine is writing a book about Crampton’s work. 

You can follow her on LinkedIn and Instagram and visit her SOA profile page here