Charlotte Collins
Charlotte Collins is an award-winning literary translator, of contemporary literature and drama from the German, and author of children's/young adult novels.[1]
Career
Collins studied English Literature at Christ's College, Cambridge, then trained in acting for two years at The Poor School, London. She worked as an actor and radio journalist in the UK and Germany.[2][3] She is currently co-chair of the Translators Association, and is the creator of the Translators Association - 60 Years of Classic Translation series.[4]
Awards and Honours
- 2017 - Goethe-Institut Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize in 2017 for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler[5]
- 2017 - Shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award - for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
- 2017 - Longlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award - for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
- 2016 - Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize - for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler[6]
Translations
- 2018 - The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells (Sceptre)
- 2016 - The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler (House of Anansi Press/Picador)
- The Eighth Life, by Nino Haratischwili (co-translator with Ruth Martin, for Scribe UK)
YA novels
Collins is the author of two bilingual novels for children/young adults:
- Save Green Farm! – Rettet Green Farm! (Langenscheidt Verlag, 2007. Ill. Anette Kannenberg)
- Boarding School Blues – Liebesfrust im Internat (Langenscheidt Verlag, 2008)
References
- ^ https://www.langenscheidt.com/autoren/charlotte-collins
- ^ https://www.langenscheidt.com/autoren/charlotte-collins
- ^ An Interview with Literary Translator Charlotte Collins, on Bookwitty, 28 Sept 2016. https://www.bookwitty.com/text/interview-charlotte-collins-literary-translator%20/57ec395aacd0d006d806945d
- ^ https://60yearsoftranslation.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/the-journey-begins/
- ^ Collins delivering her acceptance speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPOHUICrsZA
- ^ 2016 Man Booker International Q&A: Charlotte Collins - https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/2016-man-booker-international-qa-charlotte-collins