Ruth Martin (translator)
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Ruth Martin | |||
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| Born | 1979 | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Citizenship | United Kingdom | ||
| Education | B.A. in English and European Literature | ||
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| Occupation | Literary translator | ||
Ruth Martin (b. 1979) is a British literary translator of German fiction and non-fiction.
Career
After studying for a B.A. in English and European Literature at the University of Warwick and graduating with a First, Martin gained a PhD in German from Birkbeck University with a thesis on Franz Kafka and the Brentano School. She taught translation at Birkbeck, and as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, and was Co-Chair of the Society of Authors Translators Association from 2017-2020.
Awards and honours
- 2015 – Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature[1]
- 2020 – Winner, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Eighth Life: for Brilka by Nino Haratischvili (co-translation with Charlotte Collins)[2]
- Longlisted (with the author, and co-translator Charlotte Collins) for the International Booker Prize (2020) and the International DUBLIN (2021) for Nino Haratischwili's The Eighth Life[3]
Translations
- 2014 – Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2015 – The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Hubert Wolf (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2015 – Saving Safa by Waris Dirie (Virago)
- 2016 – Two Gentlemen on the Beach by Michael Köhlmeier (Haus Publishing)
- 2017 – Yiza by Michael Köhlmeier (Haus Publishing)
- 2018 – Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power. Germany, 1918 by Volker Weidermann (Pushkin Press)
- 2019 – The Right Life by Remo Largo (Allen Lane)
- 2019 – We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter (Old Street Publishing)
- 2019 – The Eighth Life: for Brilka by Nino Haratischwili, co-translated with Charlotte Collins (Scribe UK)
- 2020 – The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories by Joseph Roth (Pushkin Press)
References
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