Ruth Martin
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| Ruth Martin | |
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| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Richard Lander School, Truro |
| 💼 Occupation | Literary translator |
Ruth Martin (born 1979) is a British literary translator of German fiction and non-fiction.
Career[edit]
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 to 2020.[1]
Awards and honours[edit]
- 2015 – Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature[2][3]
- 2020 – Winner, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation[4] for The Eighth Life: for Brilka by Nino Haratischvili (co-translation with Charlotte Collins)
- Longlisted for the International Booker Prize (2020) and the International Dublin Literary Award (2021) for Nino Haratischwili's The Eighth Life[5] (with the author, and co-translator Charlotte Collins)
Translations[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ↑ https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/kul/lue/uak/per.cfm?personId=3112
- ↑ https://www.cundillprize.com/winners/2015
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peXsdH-RSls
- ↑ https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/womenintranslation/winner2020/
- ↑ https://thebookerprizes.com/international-booker/news/2020-international-booker-prize-longlist-announced
External links[edit]
- Ruth Martin's website
- Guardian review of The Eighth Life
- New Books in German Translator Focus
- Bookblast Interview: Translators of the Week - Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin
- TA Co-Chair Ruth Martin honours the great German translator Anthea Bell (The Riveter magazine)
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