Helen McClory was raised between the Isle of Skye and Edinburgh, where she currently lives. Her first story collection On the Edges of Vision, won the Saltire First Book of the Year 2015. Her other books include Mayhem & Death, The Goldblum Variations, a collection of microfictions about Jeff Goldblum and you, and Bitterhall. There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart.

University of Exeter Translation! Festival 2022, in partnership with Connecting Cultures and Warwick Thursdays at the University of Warwick

Thursday 12 May, 3.30 - 5 p.m.

Register here for in-person or virtual attendance:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-jewish-writers-in-translation-tickets-318373272027 

In the summer of 2021, five European Jewish writers and five literary translators participated in a virtual residency hosted by Jewish Book Week with the support of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. Over several weeks, writers and translators met online to discuss the translation into English of an extract from a work in progress. The languages represented were Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Polish. This event brings these writers and translators together once more to discuss the process of collaborating on the translations and the state of contemporary European Jewish writing. The event is supported by the University of Exeter and the Connecting Cultures research cluster at the University of Warwick.

The writers are: Daniella Pinkstein, Tomer Dreyfus, Dory Sontheimer, Patrycja Dołowy, Femmetje de Wind (not in attendance).

The translators are: Anna Blasiak, Alice Tetley-Paul, Chantal Wright, Rachel Toogood, Vineet Lal.

Biographies of the writers and translators can be found here:

https://jewishbookweek.com/prizes-and-awards/writers-in-translation/