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LITERARY TRANSLATION

My latest publication:

Revolver Christi by Anna Albinus

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Published by Dedalus Books

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No one knows the exact origins of the enigmatic Revolver Christi, a holy relic with a sinister past.


When the revolver is implicated in a mysterious crime,Thomas finds himself drawn into an ever-tightening web of intrigue. A piano teacher, a photograph in the attic, an underground sect, an unexplained illness—with each thread he pulls, Thomas inches closer to unravelling the truth. But those elusive answers he craves may lie unnervingly close to home.


Subtle, subversive, and filled with a creeping sense of dread—this genre-bending novella is a bold exploration of religion, superstition and human nature.

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Other recent publications:

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In Foreign Lands, Trees Speak Arabic by Usama Al Shahmani

Part of the +SVIZRA series from Strangers Press

USAMA AL SHAHMANI left his native Iraq and is living as an asylum-seeker in Switzerland. Worried about his brother in Baghdad and bewildered by the inscrutable behaviours of the Swiss (such as their strange propensity for walking in the woods), he initially struggles to get to grips with life in this new land. He grapples with feelings of loss and questions of identity, torn between his adopted country and the culture he was forced to abandon. But, little by little, with the help of a couple of kind strangers, he starts to find his feet and discovers a sense of home through the natural world.
All my translations:
  • Revolver Christi by Anna Albinus – Dedalus Books (March 2026) 
  • The Test Book by Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler (revised and updated previous English translation), Profile Books (February 2024)
  • 'My White Fox' by Katharina Bendixen – Issue 17 of No Man's Land (March 2023)
  • Feel Free by Dagmar Schifferli (extract) – Asymptote blog (August 2022)
  • The Miner and the Canary by Catherine Safonoff (extract) – Summer 2022 issue of Asymptote
  • In Foreign Lands, Trees Speak Arabic by Usama Al Shahmani (extract) – part of the +SVIZRA series from Strangers Press (August 2022)
  • The Interpreter by Isabella Pallavicini (February 2022)
  • 'The Third Wolf' by Katharina Bendixen - Issue 23 of SAND (November 2021)
  • We Have Lived Here Since We were Born by Andreas Moster (extract) - in Elemental anthology, part of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press (March 2021)​
  • 'The Mutation' by Francis Kirps - Issue 15 of No Man's Land (January 2021)
Prizes and Awards
  • Second place in the 2022 John Dryden translation prize (and longlisted for another piece the same year)
  • Runner-up in the 2020 Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF) London translation prize​
  • Longlisted for the 2020 John Dryden translation prize
Related work
In addition to full-length works, I am available for:
  • English translation samples for foreign-language publishers
  • Reader reports for English-language publishers interested in French or German titles
  • Cultural consultancy
  • Book reviews
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