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Ruth Martin, c. Adrian Pope

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Ruth Martin studied English literature before gaining a PhD in German. She has been translating fiction and non-fiction since 2010, by authors ranging from Joseph Roth and Hannah Arendt to Volker Weidermann and Shida Bazyar.

Together with Charlotte Collins, she won the 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for Nino Haratischwili’s epic novel The Eighth Life. Ruth has taught at the University of Kent and the Bristol Translates summer school, and is a former co-chair of the UK’s Translators Association.

Ruth Martin studied English literature before gaining a PhD in German. She has been translating fiction and non-fiction since 2010, by authors ranging from Joseph Roth and Hannah Arendt to Volker Weidermann and Shida Bazyar.

Together with Charlotte Collins, she won the 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for Nino Haratischwili’s epic novel The Eighth Life. Ruth has taught at the University of Kent and the Bristol Translates summer school, and is a former co-chair of the UK’s Translators Association.

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