During Crossing Border, the translators of The Chronicles are offered a master class in literary translation by the Amsterdam Translators’ House / Dutch Foundation for Literature (a co-operation with the Translation Fund). The masterclass is organized in collaboration with the Library of The Hague.
The Chronicles’ master class mediators are:
Andrea Kluitman has a master’s degree in German Studies. Since 1993 she has been translating Dutch literature, graphic novels, plays and movie scripts. The authors whose work she has translated include Gerbrand Bakker, Hella Haasse and Brecht Evens. She is chair of the Stichting Vertaalverhaal (‘Story-translation foundation’, www.vertaalverhaal.nl) and co-organises an annual translators-tour of The Netherlands and Belgium (vertalersgeluktournee). She is also involved in language training courses and workshops.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a full-time translator of Polish literature, and twice winner of the Found in Translation award. She has translated works by several of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists, and authors of reportage. She also translates crime fiction , poetry , essays, and books for children . She is a mentor for the BCLT’s Emerging Translators’ Mentorship Programme, and Co-Chair of the UK Translators Association. She has recently completed a translation of Rage, a crime novel by Zygmunt Miłoszewski.
Caroline Meijer studied Translation Studies and has been active as as literary translator since 1990, she is final editor of Translation-zine Filter. She (co-) translated novels by Patrick deWitt, Siri Hustvedt and John O’Hara, also short stories by Rebecca Lee, Miroslav Penkov, Dara Horn, Elisa Albert and Susan Steinberg. Her latest work was a short story by Harry Kalmer in literary magazine Terras.
David Colmer is an Amsterdam-based Australian translator who translates from Dutch and, occasionally, German. He has won several prizes, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, both with Gerbrand Bakker. His current project is a translation of Paul van Ostaijen’s 1921 poetry classic, Occupied City.
Jan Gielkens (1952, The Netherlands) studied German Language and Literature in Utrecht and has a PhD in History. Until his retirement in 2015 he worked as a researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and as a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He publishes on history, textual scholarship, and book, translation and reception history and has translated about 40 books, among them 13 books of German Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass.
Karol Lesman (1951), studied Polish language and literature in Amsterdam and Krakow. Since 1979 he is a fulltime translater and publicist. He has received the Aleida Schot Prizeand the Alfred Jurzykowski Award. For his entire translation oeuvre he was awarded the 2009 Dutch Translation Fund and in 2013 he landed the most prestigious Polish translation prize the; Transatlantyk. He translator proze by, amongst others: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Kazimierz Brandys, Julian Stryjkowski and Marek Hłasko. The last few years he has translated mostly contemporary novels by for instance: Paweł Huelle, Tomek Tryzna, Olga Tokarczuk, Andrzej Stasiuk, Dorota Masłowska and Wiesław Myśliwski. He also translated a plethora of poetry by Wisława Szymborska, Ewa Lipska, Tadeusz Różewicz and many others. He is currently working on finishing his translation of De laatste hand (The last hand) by Wiesław Myśliwski.
Michele Hutchison (UK, 1972) studied at UEA, Cambridge and Lyon universities and has lived in the Netherlands since 2004. She worked as an editor in publishing for a number of years before becoming a literary translator. She has translated books by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Tosca Menten, Tom Lanoye, Joris Luyendijk and Simone van der Vlugt amongst others. Her 2014 translation of Craving by Esther Gerritsen was shortlisted for the Vondel prize. She is currently translating Roxy by the same author.